Ghost Fox / Laurence Yep / 70 pages / Fairy Tale Retelling

The Ghost Fox is an adaptation of a ghost story/fairy tale found in the Chinese classic Liao-Chai Chih-Yi collected by the seventeenth century Chinese scholar Pu Sung-Ling.  The story offers a "humorous, insightful look at the dynamics within a traditional Chinese family."  While Big Lee is off at sea trading, Little Lee promises his father that he will take good care of his mother.  Unfortunately, he is followed by a man in a red coat whom his father had chastised for bullying.  Little Lee names the man Red Robe.  He discovers that Red Robe is actually a ghost fox who attempts to steal his mother's soul.  Ingenuity and deception enable the boy to save his mother and earn the respect of his neighbors and relatives.