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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Arabella and Finn become mates and have kits, one of whom is black like Arabella.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Arabella and Finn become mates and have kits, one of whom is black like Arabella.]]
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* UpperClassEquestrian: Fi lives with her wealthy parents in Kennilwood Manor, a seventy-five-acre horse farm that her great-great-grandfather purchased as a summer home. Fi has read extensively about horses in addition to being a talented rider, and shares a close bond with her horse Franny.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Finn's father leads the hunters away from his mate and kits' den, saving them but getting himself killed. When Finn realizes what happened, he [[YouKilledMyFather vows to avenge the death of his father]].
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''The Black Fox of Beckham'' is a 2019 young adult novel by David L. Heaney.
In the woods near the small English village of Beckham, a rare black fox is sighted during cubbing season. Jeremy Biggs, the master of the foxhounds used for the yearly fox hunts, seizes the opportunity to drum up publicity for the hunts by telling stories about black foxes with evil powers. But the fox, Arabella, only wants to be left alone. Arabella befriends a male fox named Finn and the humans Silviana Ionescu, a young Roma widow, and Fiona "Fi" Carroll, the teenage autistic daughter of the honorary secretary of the hunt, and they all fight to have fox hunting banned.
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!!''The Black Fox of Beckham'' contains examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The book is set sometime before fox hunting was banned in England in 2005.
* CommonalityConnection: Arabella, Silviana, and Fi connect because they're all treated badly for being different.
* EyesAlwaysAverted: Fi can only stand to look at people's faces for a fraction of a second at a time. She's learned to read people's expressions quickly.
* HumansByAnyOtherName: Foxes call humans "furless ones."
* OnlyFriend: At the beginning of the book, Fi's only human friend is the groom Evan Lockerby, who has been helping her ride horses since she was a little girl.
* TheRunaway: Evan has worked for the Carrolls since he ran away from his abusive alcoholic father when he was seventeen.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Inverted. Arabella has the rare gift of talking to humans and understanding what they say.
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In the woods near the small English village of Beckham, a rare black fox is sighted during cubbing season. Jeremy Biggs, the master of the foxhounds used for the yearly fox hunts, seizes the opportunity to drum up publicity for the hunts by telling stories about black foxes with evil powers. But the fox, Arabella, only wants to be left alone. Arabella befriends a male fox named Finn and the humans Silviana Ionescu, a young Roma widow, and Fiona "Fi" Carroll, the teenage autistic daughter of the honorary secretary of the hunt, and they all fight to have fox hunting banned.
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!!''The Black Fox of Beckham'' contains examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The book is set sometime before fox hunting was banned in England in 2005.
* CommonalityConnection: Arabella, Silviana, and Fi connect because they're all treated badly for being different.
* EyesAlwaysAverted: Fi can only stand to look at people's faces for a fraction of a second at a time. She's learned to read people's expressions quickly.
* HumansByAnyOtherName: Foxes call humans "furless ones."
* OnlyFriend: At the beginning of the book, Fi's only human friend is the groom Evan Lockerby, who has been helping her ride horses since she was a little girl.
* TheRunaway: Evan has worked for the Carrolls since he ran away from his abusive alcoholic father when he was seventeen.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Inverted. Arabella has the rare gift of talking to humans and understanding what they say.
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