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The year is 2057. Endless wars have torn the USA apart and enslaved Americans to the evil CCR, the Confederation of Consolidated Republics. Growing up in wartime has made fourteen-year-old Cody Pierce wise in survival skills. Now he's The White Fox, rebel leader of the children's barracks in a CCR prison camp. Cody manages a terrifying escape and then plays cat and mouse with the CCR. Every day brings him closer to capture, but closer as well to his goal - to return and liberate the children he left behind.
Summary
The year is 2057. Endless wars have torn the USA apart and enslaved Americans to the evil CCP, the Confederation of Consolidated Republics. Growing up in wartime has made fourteen-year-old Cody Pierce wise in survival skills. Now he's The White Fox, rebel leader of the children's barracks in a CCR prison camp. Cody manages a terrifying escape and then plays cat and mouse with the CCR.
Author Notes
Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minnesota. He was working as a satellite technician for an aerospace firm in California when he realized he wanted to be a writer. He left his job and spent the next year in Hollywood as a magazine proofreader. His first book, Special War, was published in 1966. He has written more than 175 books for young adults including Brian's Winter, Winterkill, Harris and Me, Woodsong, Winterdance, The Transall Saga, Soldier's Heart, This Side of Wild, and Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books. Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room are Newbery Honor Books. He was the recipient of the 1997 Margaret A. Edwards Award for his lifetime achievement in writing for young adults.
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Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 5-8-Life is bleak for Cody Pierce. The year is 2057 and the United States is a war-torn wasteland. The CCR (Confederation of Consolidated Republics) has taken over the country and forced many citizens into prison camps. Cody is a seemingly model prisoner, able to speak the CCR's language and recite their propaganda, while secretly plotting to escape. He flees in the company of a U.S. army pilot who he hopes will help him locate the military base. As he continues to be hunted by the CCR, his renown as a rebel leader, nicknamed the White Fox, grows by the day. Cody has to decide whom to trust as he attempts his greatest rebellion of all-releasing all the children in his prison camp. There is not a lot of character or world development here, but the action is nonstop in Paulsen's fast-paced story (Delacorte, 2000) as Cody finds himself in one precarious situation after another. His narrow escapes begin to stretch credulity, though, as he is conveniently rescued at the last moment many times along his adventure. Hunter Davis's narration brings listeners straight into the action, and he does a nice job of distinguishing between the characters. Reluctant readers and Paulsen fans will not be disappointed.-Elizabeth Elsbree, Krug Elementary School, Aurora, IL (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Plotted much like a shoot-'em-up computer game, this often violent adventure shows the Newbery Honor author at his least literary. It is 2057, and the Confederation of Consolidated Republics (CCR) has decimated the United States (America's downfall, readers learn, has been precipitated by military cutbacks and the elimination of the CIA). The eponymous White Fox is Cody Pierce, a 14-year-old whose intelligence, ability to master military skills and sheer endurance would make him the envy of even a comic-book superhero (a comparison underscored by the graphics-style cover treatment). Confined to a prison camp and supposedly being indoctrinated in CCR thinking, "in a cleansing experiment much like the one Hitler had tried with the youth of Germany," Cody has actually been hatching an escape plan. When a U.S. pilot from a well-organized resistance unit is captured and brought to the prison, Cody knows he must save her along with himself. The story line hurtles through hairbreadth rescues and encounters with loyal American fighters and bloodcurdlingly evil CCR soldiers as Cody shoots, punches and detonates his way out of the prison camp and back again, to even the score with his former captors. The dialogue is pure B-movie ("What is this foolish patriotism you Americans possess? Why would you be willing to be tortured?") and, as in a B-movie, readers can cheer on the good guys without ever fearing that they might not triumph in the end. Ages 9-14. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Fourteen-year-old Cody (aka White Fox) is imprisoned after the Consolidation of Confederated Republics takes over the United States in the mid-twenty-first century. The daring teenager escapes from prison camp with Toni, a captured U.S. Army Rebels pilot, then returns with back-ups to settle the score and save the other captured children. This fast-paced read is superficial in the extreme but remains enjoyable escapist entertainment. From HORN BOOK Fall 2000, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Gr. 6^-9. Paulsen offers a bloody, militaristic fantasy in this trio of futuristic adventures set in 2057. The star is the seemingly indestructible Cody Pierce, a.k.a. White Fox--a sort of blond, teenage Mad Max, hell-bent on fighting the Confederation of Consolidated Republics (CCR), which has taken over the U.S. While breaking out of a concentration camp (the CCR has interned a majority of U.S. citizens), Cody helps liberate a rebel major from the U.S. army. Instead of savoring his own freedom, however, Cody vows to go back to the CCR camp and rescue other prisoners, particularly the children, and after a bloody, circuitous route, he accomplishes his goal. This is essentially a war story, and the expected violence is graphic--Cody himself is a killer--but children who are looking for a summer blockbuster in a book will find the same nonstop action, clipped, cartoonish dialogue, and stereotypic, action-figure characters as they can see on the screen. A good choice for reluctant readers not put off by rough stuff. --Gillian Engberg