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Maybe a Fox Written by Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee Atheneum, 2016, 272 pp., ISBN 978-1-4424-8242-5

To run faster-this is 12-year-old track star Sylvie's wish. A wish she makes over and over again, tossing stones into the forbidden "Slip," an underground river near her Vermont home. Jules, her 11-year-old sister, is more cautious and deliberate; her passion is rock collecting. The sisters are close and share the grief of their mother's unexpected death years before by playing...