Overview :A Study Guide for Paula Fox's "The Slave Dancer," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plo... Read More
Overview :Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral ... Read More
Overview :Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. He... Read More
Overview :One day, thirteen-year-old jessie Bollier is earning pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he is kidnapped and thr... Read More
Overview :Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. "Enormously touching a... Read More
Overview :Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated... Read More
Overview :A Single Shot Ned fired the forbidden rifle just once, at a flickering shadow in the autumn moonlight. But someone -- a face, fleetingly se... Read More