New York: Atheneum, (2001). Hardcover first edition - A story of the ties between dogs and wolves by this Newbery award winning writer. Set in the Colorado mountains, where a malamute, the leader of the dogs, is torn between the world of his human family and the world of Lupin, a she-wolf trying to recruit dogs for her dwindling pack. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-689838247.