Lone Wolf
Edo Van Belkom
- Reading
- Read together if useful, pausing after the school and sibling conflicts to check how they feel; the woods-and-logging adventure may provide a different focus afterwards.
- Themes
- Sibling support and independence: Argus wants to help Harlan with bullying but fears that his intervention would humiliate him. The situation raises a question about balancing care for a sibling with respect for their independence.
- Threat to the woods: The siblings must unite against a logging company planning to clear-cut the woods where they secretly run as wolves. The conflict puts the siblings’ shared interests in tension with a company’s plans for the woods.
- Worth knowing
- The overview mentions Harlan being bullied and describes the adventure as frightening at times; a reader may want to know how those moments are handled.