SuitabookGrief and self-protection
Nika responds to multiple losses by deciding that she needs no one.
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Polly Carlson-Voiles - Author
This is a grief-centred story about a child facing repeated family upheaval, resisting dependence, and encountering an orphaned wolf pup. Nature, animal care and an unfamiliar landscape appear to shape Nika’s emotional experience.
In Pasadena Nika has lost her parents and now her foster mother as well only to be shipped off with her brother to an uncle she has never met, a wolf biologist in Minnesota. Full of grief she is determined to need no one, but discovering an orphaned wolf pup with her uncle leads Nika into events and emotions she never expected. Carlson-Voiles believes that serious encounters with wildness in nature has the potential to heal the human heart. Her meticulous detailing of the rearing of wolf pups and her renderings of Nika's discovery of the wilds of Minnesota will captivate readers of any age.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a grief-centred story about a child facing repeated family upheaval, resisting dependence, and encountering an orphaned wolf pup. Nature, animal care and an unfamiliar landscape appear to shape Nika’s emotional experience.
Nika responds to multiple losses by deciding that she needs no one.
Discovering an orphaned wolf pup leads Nika into new events and emotions, alongside detailed accounts of raising wolf pups.
Nika moves with her brother to an uncle she has never met after losing her parents and foster mother.
Pay particular attention to grief and loss.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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