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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2015 | Middle Grade
Gr 4–6—Feodora "Feo" Petrovich is a "dark and stormy girl" who lives deep in the snow-covered Russian forest with her mother circa 1917. They are wolf wilders, brave souls who help reintroduce wolves into the wild, once the animals have outlived their usefulness as pets and entertainment for the aristocracy. When the deplorably evil General Rakov threatens their livelihood, burns down their home, and arrests Feo's mother, the plucky young girl sets off into the woods with her three lupine companions and a newborn wolf pup. She's soon joined by a runaway soldier from the tsar's Imperial Army who's not much older than Feo herself. Toge...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on August 1, 2015
Feodora and her mother, Marina, are "wolf wilders" in early-twentieth-century Russia: when aristocrats tire of their pet wolves (a status symbol thought to bring good luck), the girl and her mother reverse the wolves' forced domestication, teaching the animals how to survive in the wild despite the tsar's orders to destroy them. When the tsar's Imperial Army, at the command of bloodthirsty General Rakov, arrests Feo's mother for treason and burns down the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
In early-twentieth-century Russia, Feodora and her mother teach aristrocrats' abandoned pet wolves how to survive in the wild, despite th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
