Kody Boye

There are no wolves in Texas.

At least, that's what I've been told my entire life. The truth is: no one's seen one since they went extinct in the wild twenty years ago.

No one except me.

This occurrence would be strange on any day. But minutes after I think I see a red wolf in the wild, a new family moves in across from me, and I meet none other than Jackson Meadows. He claims to be from out of town, but something tells me he and his single father hold a secret that goes back generations—and may change the town forever.… (mere)

When Dakota Hammell, a teenage runaway who is attacked in an alley and left to die, is found by a psychologist who invites him to live at his house while he recuperates, he's not quite sure what to think. Even more curious is the deal he makes: Dakota can live there as long as he needs on the condition that he write in a journal every day. This novel is the journal that Dakota keeps and documents not only what happens as he works toward physical, emotional, and mental recovery but also his past as he slowly opens up about what happened to him.

This was some really great storytelling. I really could have believed that Dakota was a real young man who wrote this diary himself. The story progresses naturally and it's easy to see the way Dakota develops throughout the book. The only think that I didn't really care for was the way the book ended, though that's largely because I want so much to know what happens next...… (mere)