Wolf At the Door - Hardcover

Corcoran, Barbara

4.39

93 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689318707 ISBN 13: 9780689318702

Publisher: Atheneum, 1993

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Lee spends the summer in her new home in Montana writing, drawing, and managing and protecting her own wolves, helping her in her struggle to feel adequate in relation to her younger sister, a pretty actress. Jr Lib Guild.

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Gr. 6-8. Thirteen-year-old Lee McDougall has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and talented younger sister, Savannah, who was named after their grandmother, a renowned actress. The girls' father's decision to move the family from Missoula to a more remote area of Montana makes Lee feel even more unimportant. She finds herself drawn to an abused yearling wolf her mother rescued from a roadside zoo, and her life assumes new focus when she's given four additional wolves to care for. When Savannah's success in a local theater group inspires a visit from their grandmother, Lee is surprised to find that her once indomitable Nonny is aging. She's further dismayed when Nonny confides that she wants to take Savannah back to Los Angeles. Neighbors' vicious opposition to harboring the wolves eventually unites the sisters and draws the attention of a philanthropist who funds the McDougall's wolf refuge. Corcoran's briskly paced story offers wonderful information about wolves as well as a very sympathetic character in Lee. Chris Sherman

From Kirkus Reviews:

From a veteran author of middle-grade fiction (Annie's Monster, 1990), a novel narrated by Lee, 13, who's caring for a pack of five wolves at her family's home in the woods of western Montana--an engaging story about a ``plain-vanilla'' youngster struggling to cope with the anti-wolf hysteria of local ranchers, plus her own resentment toward her starstruck, overbearing younger sister Savannah. In the process, she discovers the strengths of her family and a focus for her own less showy--but still considerable- -talents. It requires one too many coincidences to ensure the happy ending, but the likable characters and lively pace more than compensate. Short bibliography about wolves. (Fiction. 9-13) -- Copyright �1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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