RUNDELL, Katherine

Feodora and her mother, Marina, are "wolf wilders" in early-twentieth-century Russia: when aristocrats tire of their pet wolves (a status symbol thought to bring good luck), the girl and her mother reverse the wolves' forced domestication, teaching the animals how to survive in the wild despite the tsar's orders to destroy them. When the tsar's Imperial Army, at the command of bloodthirsty General Rakov, arrests Feo's mother for treason and burns down their house, Feo—with the help of a young soldier, Ilya (who has the heart of a dancer, not a fighter), and her three wolf companions