After seeing this book recommended by LT, I put it on my wishlist. Earlier in April I saw it was available through abebooks.com and bought a copy. It arrived yesterday and I read it last night.

If you enjoy wilderness/wildlife/trappers stories, you should enjoy this one. It's about a dog who is half wolf, but is more like his husky mother in his need for a master to look up to and to follow. "Wolf" faces many challenges and life-threatening situations in the Canadian wilderness.

"A Dog Named Wolf" is similar to books by Jim Kjelgaard, Jack London, Jack O'Brien and James Oliver Curwood, and definitely worth a read. There are fights and deaths within the story, but as the writing is not gratuitous in this area, it still should be okay for preteens and up. ( )