Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt

Author:Kathi Appelt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

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Senna was fox through and through. In the weeks since her birth, she and her brothers had grown fast, the way foxes do. She had lost most of her baby fluff and her coat was a deep auburn color, with tips of black on her feet and nose and tail. Her mother and father guided her and her brothers in the ways of fox, ways that had been passed down for generations. A thousand years of fox knowledge soaked into Senna and her brothers.

But Senna also knew things that her brothers and parents didn’t, because she was Kennen. Unlike Younger Brother, who was linked to the wind, his element; and unlike Older Brother, who was linked to water, Senna was linked to the human girl Jules.

The day she asked her mother about the gray-green bars that appeared sometimes, colliding soundlessly in the air around them, her mother had shaken her head.

“You are Kennen, daughter.”

That was all she said. But her voice was filled with a sad wonder, and the gray-green bars appeared just at that moment. Senna stared at them, following their movements with her eyes. Her mother’s eyes were on her. It was then that Senna realized her mother didn’t see the gray-green bars. Her mother didn’t hear the whispered Kennen. Her mother wasn’t linked to a human, the way her daughter was, and this worried her mother.

But why?

Being Kennen made sense to Senna. She did know things that Older Brother didn’t know, but wasn’t that a good thing? She knew, for example, that the enormous cat, the one shadowing the young male human who walked through these woods, was no threat to her or her fox family. Catamount. He, too, had a purpose; Senna was sure of it.

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