The Wolf Keepers
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A high-stakes middle grade historical adventure through Yosemite National Park by the New York Times-bestselling author of Masterpiece.
Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango and her dad have always had a zoo to call their home. Lizzie spends her days watching the animals and taking note of their various behaviors. Though the zoo makes for a unique home, it's a hard place for Lizzie to make lasting friends. But all this changes one afternoon when she finds Tyler Briggs, a runaway who has secretly made the zoo his makeshift home. The two become friends and, just as quickly, stumble into a covert investigation involving the zoo wolves who are suddenly dying. Little do they know, this mystery will draw them into a high-stakes historical adventure involving the legend of John Muir as they try to navigate safely while lost in Yosemite National Park.
A Christy Ottaviano Book
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Twelve-year old Lizzie loves living at a California wildlife park (her father is head zookeeper), knowing she gets to do things that "no other kid ever got to experience." After she meets Tyler, a foster home runaway who has been hiding out at the zoo, he tells her about what happens there at night, including a mysterious visitor to the new Wolf Woods exhibit who may be making the wolves sick. Broach's (the Superstition Mountain series) intrepid protagonists engage in sleuthing expeditions, first to determine the cause of the wolves' illness and then to discover the location of John Muir's lost cabin in Yosemite moments Ratteree (Lilliput) captures in evocative pencil illustrations of human interactions with the natural world. Lizzie's choice to follow Tyler into the wilderness ("He'd been left too often in the past, and the past was a thing you carried with you all the time, like a burr stuck to your heel") offers just one example of the ways Broach's characters wrestle with ethical questions throughout this gratifying, thought-provoking tale. Ages 9 14.
