Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2014 — Silver Medal
Forest of Reading, Silver Birch Awards — Shortlisted
MYRCA Award 2016 — Shortlisted
Chosen for the Toronto Public Library''s 2015 Great Reads for Kids collection
“With Red Wolf, Jennifer Dance has come howling out of the wilderness … and I''m deeply impressed.” — Joseph Boyden, Giller Prize–winning author
Life is changing for Canada’s Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory.
In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with winter closing in, will Red Wolf and Crooked Ear survive? And if they do, what will they find?
