"Marked as tabat--the unlucky one--Kai and his wolf, Uff, must brave the long winter together and learn what it takes to survive on their own"--Provided by publisher.
"Marked as tabat--the unlucky one--Kai and his wolf, Uff, must brave the long winter together and learn what it takes to survive on their own"--Provided by publisher.
After the sudden death of her beloved father, twelve-year-old Franny spends the summer with her unique paternal grandmother in Wayland, Massachusetts, where she continues to care for the fairies her father knew as a boy while at the same time wrestling with her own grief as well as the old and new griefs of her mother and grandmother.
Sarey is tired of being teased by her classmates because of her size and the difficulties she has with reading, so when her parents decide to move to Maine, she looks forward to a new start, and as she helps her family build their new home, she finds the self-confidence she has always lacked.
In Maine, retired French Canadian logger Jean du Bois and his grandson, Ti'Jean, rescue an orphaned moose calf who refuses to leave when it is grown. Meanwhile, Jean's work horse, Kate, grows too old to pull the plow.
Mrs. Moose and Mrs. Grouse watch as their bumbling but well-intentioned husbands try to find and incubate moose eggs in this fable that explains why moose have broad, flat antlers, a droopy nose, and wide hooves.
