Lone Wolf

Deborah Dowson is a Canadian children’s librarian living in Powell,
Ohio.

In this sequel to Wolf Pack, the teen werewolf siblings once again use
their intelligence combined with their fearsome strength to challenge
authority and achieve justice.

When loggers threaten to cut down the forest where the siblings were
born, there are as many protesters of the project as supporters. The
wolf pack finds a way to intimidate the loggers without harming them;
their goal is achieved when the loggers become too fearful to remain at
the site. Along parallel lines, Harlan deals with a bully in a
controlled and clever way so that his identity as a werewolf is kept
secret, while at the same time he makes sure that the bully will not
harass him again. As the teen werewolves continue to struggle to balance
their wild wolf natures and their human sides, they also learn more
about their ancestry as wolves (Argus finds a member of their parent’s
pack who still lives in the wild). Argus is tempted to heed the “call
of the wild,” but ultimately decides that his human life has not
prepared him to live entirely in the forest.

Although these teen characters are the creatures of fantasy, their
concerns and struggles are shared by young-adult readers who also face a
time of self-discovery and decisions about their future in the world.
The author nicely weaves various elements of the plot and subplots into
a unified, interesting, and suspenseful fantasy that is grounded in real
life. Recommended.