Red Wolf

In the late 1800s, the Anishnaabek people are moved from their land to a reservation. Young Red Wolf is sent to a residential school and separated from his family and a wolf he has befriended. He runs away from the school but is recaptured and returned. When he can leave in grade 8 he must find his place in a world where he fits neither with the settler culture nor his own. This middle-school novel, suitable for a literature circle novel study or class read aloud, lends itself to discussions of residential schools, First Nations’ views of the natural world, and the interconnectedness of life.