Wolf
Thirteen-year-old Cassy lives with her grandmother until a mysterious late-night visitor sends her to stay with her free-spirited mother Goldie in a London squat. As she helps produce an educational wolf play with the resident troupe of actors, Cassy cannot shake the feeling that something is stalking her. Little Red Riding Hood haunts her dreams recast through her own fears. Eventually she learns the secret that has been kept from her all her life: her father is a notorious IRA terrorist. Winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal, this gripping thriller interweaves wolf symbolism with themes of fractured family, identity, and the search for truth.
Work Information
Wolves never desert their families — so why did her father leave?
Winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal. A young adult novel by Gillian Cross, published by Oxford University Press in 1990 (first UK edition 140 pages). US edition published by Holiday House in 1991. The Japanese translation by Keiko Aoumi was published by Iwanami Shoten in 1994 as part of the Sekai no Seishun Novels series (250 pages). A suspenseful story of a girl confronting her fractured family and her father's dark secret, interwoven with wolf and Red Riding Hood motifs.
Review Summaries
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Readers frequently praise the eerie atmosphere and effective wolf symbolism, while many note the ending feels rushed after a lengthy build-up. Mixed reception overall, with strong endorsement from educators who use it as classroom reading.
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LoveReading4Kids recommends it as a brilliantly crafted Carnegie Medal winner that interweaves a spine-chilling contemporary thriller with the story of Red Riding Hood, praising how Cassy draws on the fairy tale to cope with the dangerous uncertainties of her own life.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Pr
- Published
- 1986-06-01
- Pages
- 140 pages
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780192716330
- ISBN-10
- 0192716336
- Price
- 2323 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Teen & Young Adult/Mysteries
Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist.
Reviews
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Great story…but really really good language. What an author!
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The book is the same as one in the picture that is used, I loved this book when I was a teen in English class and loved it, lost the book from moving so many times and this brings back happy memories from my English class when I had to learn this book.
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"Wolf" is an interesting, intriguing, but sometimes confusing read. The plot is good, unexpected, and strong to the end. The characters are well-constructed and believable. This book held my intrest to the last word. Gillian Cross brings a poetic and mystical quality to her books as only British writers seem to do(funny, huh?:). My favorite thing about the book had to be the way Gillian Cross used wolves to symbolize people and how the blood-thirsty, man-eating wolves of our nightmares are not the real wolves of nature, but the wolf inside of us. Overall, a very interesting and thought-provoking book. One of my favorites!:) I would like to recommend the following books by Gillian Cross: Roscoes Leap (fair warning: don't read before bed!) Born of the Sun (very intense adventure story) Tight Rope (haven't got it yet but sounds really good) On the Edge ( haven't got that either, but also sounds good)
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Good quality
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Unable to comment as bought as a gift