Parents need to know that Pax, by Sara Pennypacker ( Clementine) is the story of a deeply bonded 12-year-old boy and his pet fox caught up in an increasingly dystopian nightmare. Get started CloseĪ briefly encountered, slightly threatening adult is smoking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

I'm an unpredictable, deadly weapon.'ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. 'What would you call someone who can go from a girl eating peaches and watching fireflies to a woman who kills a man? Eh? That girl would have cut off her arm before she'd have hurt a single one of those fireflies, but a few years later she killed a perfect stranger. A veteran maimed in another war describes how war can change people: As he's learning to carve wood, he cuts the image of a fox into his arm. Peter, whose mother died in a car accident years earlier, is terrified that he'll grow up rage-driven like his father he's tormented by the memory of how his actions contributed to a baby rabbit's death long ago.

A fox describes in detail how she saw her parents clubbed to death after her mother was caught in a trap. The war-driven violence in Pax is most horrific because it repeatedly destroys lovable innocents when a deer wanders into a meadow and is blown up by a land mine, there's little description of gore, just a heartrending sense of betrayal and wrongness.

Pax by Sara Pennypacker