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Wolf Hollow Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016 A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Wolf Hollow. Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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West Pennsylvania, 1943, autumn. We’re told the year right away. It’s immediately clear that this is a war-aftermath story.
Annabelle is a likeable, ordinary girl. Her shortcoming is that so far she has led a happy, sheltered life with no real calamity. At the magical (critical) age of 12this is about to change. Her happy, sheltered life exposes her shortcoming — she doesn’t yet know how to cope with adversity. Over the course of this story she must learn.
Overall, Annabelle wants to be left in peace to go to school and get a career. In this particular story, Annabelle wants to stop Betty from bullyingher and to keep her brothers safe. Later, this morphs into the intense desire for justice — to protect Toby.
Betty
Betty is introduced on page 5. As newcomer, she is immediately interesting to both Annabelle and to the reader. We expect things of newcomers. She is a big, tough 14 year old girl from ‘the city’. She’ll be living with her grandparents, the Glengarrys. Betty is a bit of a stock bully. But when she kills the bird (the inverse of Save The Cat) it becomes clear that she is more sociopathic than your typical middle grade bully. This girl has real issues. Partly to avoid problematic stereotypes, p...
Annabelle’s best friend Ruth is a dark-haired, red-lipped, pale girl with a quiet voice. We know immediately that she is not the star of the story. Such girls do not often star in middle grade fiction. (They may find themselves viewpoint characters.) Instead, this girl loses an eye. I’m reminded of Mary and Laura from the Little House On The Prairi...
It is explained that Wolf Hollow no longer has wolves but used to be the place where wolves were trapped and shot. There were deep pits dug there, which the wolves would fall into. Another story with wolf in the title but not in the setting is “The Wamsutter Wolf” by Annie Proulx. It is immediately clear that the character of Toby is the personific...
Another novel, for slightly older readers perhaps, deals with questions of right and wrong, appearance vs reality. Big Mouth and Ugly Girlby Joyce Carol Oates.
Oct 8, 2016 · Brilliantly crafted, Wolf Hollow is a haunting tale of America at a crossroads and a time when one girl’s resilience and strength help to illuminate the darkest corners of our history. “The honesty of Wolf Hollow will just
- Denise Mealy
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Wolf Hollow is a young adult novel written by Lauren Wolk, published by Dutton Children's Books in 2016. It is set in rural western Pennsylvania during the autumn of 1943 and describes how the protagonist, Annabelle "learned how to lie" and "that what I said and what I did mattered" in relation to two interlopers in her life: the bully Betty Glengarry, and the mysterious drifter Toby.
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- Lauren Wolk
- May 3, 2016
- Dutton Children's Books
Wolf Hollow. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement. questions about this title!
Wolf Hollow Summary. Annabelle's quiet life on her family farm in Wolf Hollow is disrupted when a new girl, Betty, comes to town. Annabelle McBride lives with her loving parents, grandparents, little brothers Henry and James, and her cantankerous Aunt Lily. She lives comfortably but is not rich. However, this doesn't stop Betty from bullying ...
