Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Setting:  Modern times, on a farm in the country.

Main Characters:  Tom, Uncle Fred, Aunt Millie, Hazeline

Tom is horrified when his parents tell him he is to stay on Aunt Millie's farm while they are away on a trip. When he arrives, he finds the farm every bit as strange and uncomfortable as he feared - that is, until the appearance of the black fox.
 

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