This was my first booktalk for a great Young Adult novel. Shiver is the first in the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy.
“She waited to change, and I waited to change, and we both wanted what we couldn’t have.”
One shivering winter day a nine year old Grace is dragged from her backyard tire swing by a pack of wolves to be devoured. After an almost human reaction to the bloodshed a yellow eyed wolf stops the pack and saves the girl from death. Years later, Grace remembers those eyes and often sees them peering through the woods watching her. She comes to think of this wolf as her wolf and waits each winter for a glimpse of him.
After a recent wolf attack on a high school student, leading to his death, the people of Mercy Falls are ready to kill the wolves once and for all. Grace becomes terrified as the gun-wielding townspeople make their way through the woods in search of the wolves. Her wolf. As she clambers her way home through the woods, she finds him on her back porch, shivering and bleeding. In human form.
Sam has been living two lives since he was bitten nearly 9 years ago. He explains to Grace that every summer he returns to his human self but once the weather turns cold, Sam is back on four legs. Each year the wolves’ human stretch of time grows shorter and shorter. Now that Sam and Grace are finally together they must fight to keep him warm, to keep him human, but the increasingly cold temperatures plus a couple protective pack members threaten their connection.
Sam knows this will be his last year as a human.
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