Wolf By Wolf by Ryan Graudin

Book of the Week: 26 June 2016

This is a busy time of the year when the Warwickshire Year 9 Book Award is launched. I am in the middle of recruiting a Judging Team of twelve of our current Year 8 students, as well as reading the shortlisted books. I have therefore picked a book that was published in 2015 but which I haven’t read. Here is the publisher’s (Indigo, an imprint of the Hachette Children’s Group) blurb:

Once upon a different time, there was a girl who lived in a kingdom of death. Wolves howled up her arm. A whole pack of them – made of tattoo ink and pain, memory and loss. It was the only thing about her that ever stayed the same.

Germany, 1956. Over ten years since the Nazis won the war. Seventeen-year-old Yael is part of the resistance, and she has just one mission: to kill Hitler. But first she’s got to get close enough to him to do it.

The four books shortlisted for the Warwickshire Year 9 Book Award, 2016. ‘One’ by Sarah Crossan was awarded the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal last week.