It's a story of revolution and adventure, about standing up for the things you love and fighting back. Author Katherine Rundell brilliantly captures the wildness of childhood, and the bravery required to get through it. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans. The Wolf Wilder is full of wonderful and memorable characters, but none so much as Feo herself, who is determined, a little bit wild and fiercely independent. With her wolves by her side, she sets off on a daring, exciting and sometimes scary journey through the snow to St Petersburg, pursued by an evil general who's determined to kill Feo's wolves and stop her at all costs. When the corrupt Russian Army threatens her wolves and arrests her mum, Feo is left with no option but to go on the run. Feo's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training: a person who teaches tamed animals to be wild again, to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feo and her mother live in the snowy woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces.
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