I’m interested in how wars affect people who didn’t choose them. SP: My reasoning was: I’m not interested in war as a subject of my books.

It’s pretty nervy to have a war in a book that nobody knows anything about. RS: In the first book there’s a war in the background. It’s easier to take out electricity if they’re trying to hide. And, frankly, the other big reason for the home in the woods is because choosing not to declare a setting, time, or space, meant I had to have something without modern conveniences. In the previous book she was much more of a mentor than in this one. Sara Pennypacker: No, it’s more about what was ideal to support the story and Vola’s role in it. The feeling of Vola’s house in the middle of the woods, and the little house that Peter is building for himself - it’s like, “This is heaven.” Is that your idea of heaven? I don’t mean theologically. Roger Sutton: The first note that I made in your book was “peach pie,” which protagonist Peter’s (unofficial) guardian Vola makes for him. But now, with Pax: Journey Home, she has. A deftly nuanced look at the fragility and strength of the human heart.Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Īs we learn below, Sara Pennypacker knew she was not going to write a sequel to her 2016 novel Pax. But now, due to a series of events, both boy and fox find themselves on journeys toward home, healing-and each other, once again. Meanwhile Peter-newly orphaned after the war, racked with guilt and loneliness-leaves his adopted home with Vola to join the Water Warriors, a group of people determined to heal the land from the scars of the war.

Pax and his mate, Bristle, have welcomed a litter of kits they must protect in a dangerous world. Once inseparable, they now lead very different lives. PAX, JOURNEY HOME Its been a year since Peter and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox.

At his grandfathers house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isnt where he should be-with Pax. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peters dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. PAX New York Times Bestseller * National Book Award Longlist Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. Book Synopsis The hardcover box set of #1 New York Times bestselling novel PAX and its follow-up, PAX, JOURNEY HOME-two timeless tales of a boy and a fox.

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