Description

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This is a hopeful conservation story about an endangered family of Mexican gray wolves who live in a sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest and their journey that leads to their successful release to the wild in Mexico.

This nonfiction story, illustrated with color photography, follows the lives of a Mexican gray wolf family, known as lobos, with pups born at a sanctuary in Washington State near Mount Rainier, to their release into the wild in Mexico. Through this hopeful and engaging story of conservation, kids learn about wolves--their characteristics and behavior--and the challenge of reintroducing an endangered species to the wild.

About the Author

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BRENDA PETERSON, a novelist, memoirist, and nature writer, is the author of 17 books including Living by Water, I Want to Be Left Behind, and Your Life is a Book. She has written about wolves for the Huffington Post.

ANNIE MARIE MUSSELMAN is a fine-art photographer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Audubon, the Wall Street Journal, Orion, the New York Times, and Outside, among other publications.

Praise For…

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"Appealing photographs will inspire even fledgling readers to attempt this well-designed story of environmental good news." --Kirkus Reviews

"A fine addition to nonfiction collections and classroom ­libraries." --School Library Journal

 "With easy to read text and heart-warming pictures, young people will enjoy learning about wolves and the challenge of reintroducing an endangered species to the wild." --Wolf Tracks Magazine

"Musselman’s striking photographs chronicle the journey that one family of Mexican gray wolves, lobos, takes from a sanctuary in Washington State to their eventual release into the Mexican wilderness." --Publishers Weekly