Wild Life
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Year
2011
ISBN
9780374380014
Pages
177 pages
Genre
realism
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
Grade Level
3-5, 6-8
Lexile Measure
860L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Legal guardianship; Kinship care; Military families; grandparents raising grandchild; grandparents looking after grandson; mother in the military; father in the military; parents in the military
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
grandmother and grandfather
Awards
Indian Paintbrush Book Award, 2013, 2nd Runner Up
Keywords
grandparents; deployment; war; Iraq; dog; rescue; running away; North Dakota; gun
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
DeFelice, Cynthia C., "Wild Life" (2011). Diverse Families. 818.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/818