''Wolf'' is a young-adult novel by
Gillian Cross, published by Oxford in 1990. Set in London, it features communal living, terrorism, and wolves (according to
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[ and a teenage girl in relation to her mother, father, and paternal grandmother.
Cross won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.][ Coincidentally, '']The Cry of the Wolf
''The Cry of the Wolf'' is a novel for children or young adults, written by Melvin Burgess and published by Andersen Press in 1990 (). Set on the island of Great Britain, it features a grey wolf raised partly by humans after learning only a l ...
'' by Melvin Burgess, featuring a grey wolf
The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly ...
as the main character, was the highly commended runner up.
Holiday House
A holiday cottage, holiday home, vacation home, or vacation property is accommodation used for holiday vacations, corporate travel, and temporary housing often for less than 30 days. Such properties are typically small homes, such as cottage ...
published the first U.S. edition in 1991.[
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Plot summary
Cassy is a teen-age girl who lives with her father's mother. Her grandmother and her mother both maintain silence about her father. One night she is awakened by mysterious footsteps. The next day, as always when the footsteps are heard, she is sent away to live with her lovely but feckless mother, Goldie, who is squatting in London. Mother, her partner, and his teenage son "make a living with innovative programs for schools: combinations of fact and fiction, drama and story, skillfully blended to challenge stereotypes and spark original thinking."[ Now they are producing a play about wolves, and they encourage Cassy to become involved. Cassy does her best to adjust to the new way of life, which is challenging in several ways. She cannot escape a sense of dread, a feeling that she is being stalked. Her nightmare is ]Red Riding Hood
"Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th century European folk tales. The two best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and the Brothe ...
"recast by her own fears".
Eventually she learns the secret she has been protected from all her life: her father is a notorious terrorist, a bomber in the Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various paramilitary organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to irredentism through Irish republicanism, the belief th ...
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["WOLF by Gillian Cross"]
'' Kirkus Reviews'' 1 March 1991. Retrieved 2012-11-23.
See also
* Homelessness in England
* Wolves in fiction
This is a list of wolves in fiction, including normal wolves and anthropomorphic wolf characters. For werewolf characters see List of werewolves.
Literature
Folk tale
*''The Boy Who Cried Wolf''
*'' The Goat and Her Three Kids''
*''Little Red ...
(list of works)
References
External links
* —immediately, first US edition
"Gillian Cross: Wolf" at the author's website
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{{Little Red Riding Hood
1990 British novels
1990 children's books
British children's novels
Works based on Little Red Riding Hood
Carnegie Medal in Literature winning works
Novels about terrorism
Novels based on fairy tales
Novels set in London
Novels by Gillian Cross
Fictional wolves
Oxford University Press books