Wolf (novel)

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Wolf
LC Class
PZ7.C88253 Wo 1990[1]

Wolf is a young-adult novel by Gillian Cross, published by Oxford in 1990. Set in London, it features communal living, terrorism, and wolves (according to Library of Congress Subject Headings)[1] and a teenage girl in relation to her mother, father, and paternal grandmother.

Cross won the annual

grey wolf
as the main character, was the highly commended runner up.

Holiday House published the first U.S. edition in 1991.[1]

Plot summary

Cassey is a teen-age girl who lives with her nan. Her nan and her mother both maintain silence about her father. One night she is awakened by mysterious footsteps. The next day, as always when the footsteps are heard, she is sent away to live with her lovely but feckless mother, Goldie, who is

Red Riding Hood
"recast by her own fears". Eventually she learns the secret she has been protected from all her life: her father is a notorious terrorist, a bomber in the Irish Republican Army. [3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Wolf" (first edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record.
    "Wolf" (first U.S. edition). LCC record. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
  2. ^ Carnegie Winner 1990. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners.
    CILIP
    . Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  3. ^ a b "WOLF by Gillian Cross". Kirkus Reviews 1 March 1991. Retrieved 2012-11-23.

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Awards
Preceded by Carnegie Medal recipient
1990
Succeeded by