Julie of the Wolves meets Hatchet in this middle grade novel that follows twelve-year-old Nika and her seven-year-old brother, Randall, as they leave their California foster home to spend a summer with their long-lost uncle. There she finds an orphaned wolf pup in a cave, whose mother has been shot. This compelling first novel explores themes of searching for family and finding a balance between caring for? and leaving alone?wild animals. AGES: 10-14 AUTHOR: Polly Carlson-Voiles wrote and illustrated her award-winning first book, Someone Walks By. She has worked as a secondary special education and English teacher and has been a pup nanny at the International Wolf Center near her home in Ely, Minnesota, where on lucky nights she listens to the music of the wolves with her husband and dog.
