| ISBN 1-58939-827-0. Softcover. $7.95 57 pages. This study guide, created by Sue Knopp, is the academic companion to Brian Connolly's "Wolf Journal." Set
in the Allegheny Mountains of northern Pennsylvania, farm boy Jimmy
Warren finds wolf tracks in the snow — even though no wolves have
been in these woods for a hundred years. The tracks lead him deeper
into his passion for nature guided by Hawk, an old Susquehannock
storyteller. Along
the way, Jimmy falls in love with the beautiful Sherry Woolman who
shares his love of the wild. As a school project, Jimmy keeps a
journal on wolves. In order to protect the wolf he discovered, Jimmy
writes about him as if he is fiction. The Tanner brothers, a derelict
pair of would-be bounty hunters, threaten to destroy the perfect
balance of nature that Jimmy has found. "Wolf Journal" is a journey
into the natural world where intricate details, like the imprint of a
wing in snow, tell a larger story — one of endangered species, an
endangered planet, and the human spirit that strives to understand and
protect. |