Wolf Pack, Edo Van Belkom, Tundra, 2004, 0887766692, 9780887766695, 184 pages. Finalists for the 2005 Aurora Award – Best Long-Form Work in English category.After a devastating forest fire, a ranger discovers a litter of wolf cubs. He and his wife soon learn that they are no ordinary wolves. They are both animal and human. Although the young ones try to fit into the human world, their true nature makes the challenges of being teenagers all the more difficult.When one of the pack is kidnapped, the others must draw on both sides of their nature – human and wolf – to find the cunning, the strength, and the courage it takes to rescue her.Edo van Belkom has created unlikely but compelling heroes in a book that is by turns funny, frightening, and always entertaining..
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After a devastating forest fire, a ranger discovers a litter of wolf cubs. He and his wife soon learn that they are no ordinary wolves. They are both animal and human. Although the young ones try to fit into the human world, their true nature makes the challenges of being teenagers all the more difficult.
Bram Stoker and Aurora Award-winner Edo van Belkom is the author of over 200 stories of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. As an editor, he has four anthologies to his credit that include two books for young adults, Be Afraid! (A Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year finalist) and Be Very Afraid! (An Aurora Award winner — Best Work in English). Born in Toronto, van Belkom graduated from York University, then worked as a daily newspaper sports and police reporter before becoming a full-time writer. Edo van Belkom lives in Brampton, Ontario, with his wife Roberta and son Luke.
Grade 5-8–While the cover art is a turnoff, this is a well-plotted story for readers not ready for Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate (Dell, 1997). Forest ranger Garrett Brock finds four wolf cubs in the British Columbia wilderness and takes them home. When his wife checks on them in the middle of the night, she sees four human babies. These cubs can change themselves from human to wolf to werewolf. The Brocks raise them as their own, and the story picks up 15 years later, when the four are experiencing typical teen angst, with an added twist. One afternoon, they transform in the woods without realizing that a famous geneticist is taping them. Dr. Monk, a rather cardboard evil character with two assistants, traps Tora and makes plans to take her to a zoo for testing. The doctor is interested only in the wealth and fame this discovery will bring him. When he overcomes Brock's obstacles and gets all the necessary clearances he needs, Tora's brothers step in, with the help of one human peer whom they trust. They devise an ingenious plan that frees her and destroys the tapes, without taking any lives. The plot moves quickly enough to hold interest and may appeal to reluctant readers.–Laurie von Mehren, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Brecksville, OH
Horror writer van Belkom (Blood Road) turns his attention to kidlit with Wolf Pack a few years back, and as with his adult novels, he starts with an unusual spin on a classic horror premise; in this case, werewolves. As the book opens, a forest ranger finds four wolf cubs in a forest fire, and is shocked to discover that the cubs are actually werewolf babies. Fast-forward to fifteen years later, and the ranger, Garrett Brock, has adopted the four and attempted to socialize them while keeping their secret. All is going relatively well until a researcher, studying something completely different, accidentally captures the kids changing on camera. The researcher, Dr. Monk, kidnaps Toda, one of the kids, and the rest of them, along with Brock and Toda's aspiring boyfriend, have to get her back.
Van Belkom's kidlit has more in common with his adult novels than his usual take on premises; his shortcomings have transferred over as well, including two-dimensional characters and an almost complete lack of complexity in plot (though this latter problem is amply provided for by making the book much shorter than his adult novels; this clocks in at one hundred eighty-four pages of unusually large print). Still, if you're looking for a quick, simple read, this is a capable beginning to the series. ***
This story is about a group of wolves who were rescued by a ranger and raised by the ranger and his wife as human children. This story targets that difficult to find 'tween category, whereas it is not quite created for children, nor is it created for the YA crowd. However, this book is the first in a series that has definite promise to grow with the children from the first stages of 'tween literature into solid Young Adult literature. It is exciting, energetic, and sweet at the same time. It reminds children that there is no greater love in the world than the love of family (no matter the form that family takes). It will most certainly be interesting to see how Van Belkom matures the characters with the upcoming novels. Highly recommended for that difficult stage between children's literature and YA. **Thanks to Tundra Books for a copy of this great story to review**
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I was fortunate enough to win a copy of this book through Library Thing. It is a very quick read geared towards young adult readers aged 9-12. The setting is British Columbia and the main character is a Park Ranger named Garrett Brock who finds 4 abandoned wolf cubs after a devastating forest fire. He brings them home and sets them up in the garage & has his wife Phyllis go check on them. She shrieks and calls out for her husband to come see what was left in the box, not 4 wolf cubs but 4 ba...more I was fortunate enough to win a copy of this book through Library Thing. It is a very quick read geared towards young adult readers aged 9-12. The setting is British Columbia and the main character is a Park Ranger named Garrett Brock who finds 4 abandoned wolf cubs after a devastating forest fire. He brings them home and sets them up in the garage & has his wife Phyllis go check on them. She shrieks and calls out for her husband to come see what was left in the box, not 4 wolf cubs but 4 babies. These are no ordinary wolf cubs; they can morph and change into werewolves, having both wolf and human qualities. Garrett and his wife adopt the children and raise them as ordinary kids.
Fast forward fifteen years later and the kids trying to survive at school with their special abilities. The kids: Noble, Argus, Harlan, and Tora like to roam the woods and change into wolves and perfect their abilities. Unbeknownst to them, an evil Geneticist witnessed their transformation and has it on tape. Eventually, Tora is kidnapped and the brothers must ban together to figure out a way to outsmart the Doctor and get their sister back.
Edo van Belkom, a former reporter on the sports and police beats for newspapers in and around Toronto, arrived on the horror scene in 1990. His first short story sale, Baseball Memories, was selected for the prestigious Year's Best Horror Stories edited by Karl Edward Wagner. The story was also nominated for Canada's prestigious Aurora Award and appeared side-by-side with work by authors such as Mordecai Richler and W. P. Kinsella in The Grand Slam Book of Canadian Baseball Writing.
Van Belkom hasn't looked back since. Some 150 short stories have sold to a variety of top magazines and anthologies in the sf, fantasy, horror and mystery genres as well as Simon & Schuster's BEST AMERICAN EROTICA. He has twice won the Aurora Award, taken home the Bram Stoker Award once, and been a finalist on many other occasions in a variety of categories spanning his work as a novelist, anthologist and non-fiction author, and his YA novel WOLF PACK won Ontario's prestigious Silver Birch Award. Overseas, his work has been published in Germany, Spain and Italy. SCREAM QUEEN (2003) and BLOOD ROAD (2004) are his first major mass market horror novels.
DEATH DRIVES A SEMI comes at you with a sparkle in its bloodshot eye, a happy twist on its pale lips, and a switchblade tucked into a back pocket of its faded jeans. These stories move with the brutal, crazed efficiency of a starved rat who has just spotted a half-eaten cheeseburger on the other side of the alley. They know where they are going and intend to get there with no wasted motion. Throughout, Edo van Belkom's left-handed, almost surreal sense of humor aerates and elevates the proceedings by providing a constant ironic commentary, like a sound track composed by Frank Zappa and Spike Jones.
Edo van Belkom is a true original, which is not something you can say about most of us. His stories are sly, wry, nasty, sad and violent. They convey the brutalizing effects of violence rather than gory (and dull) details. He has a voice all his own, and songs well worth the singing. This is one hell of a good book.
It's a fine example of expert-level dialog. Van Belkom's a first-rate interviewer in that he asks the right questions to trigger solid answers, and he never intrudes as the interviewees make real progress in disclosing their own personalities... Northern Dreamers deserves high praise for both its entertainment and reference value.
TEETH works on several levels: as an over-the-edge contemporary horror novel, as a police procedural, and as a thriller. Edo van Belkom's mastery of the art of storytelling is brought to bear on this unforgettable novel. It's about as far over the edge as a horror book can get, and the big boys were all too timid to take it. Still, I expect it to knock people's socks off, the way Stephen King's CARRIE did. From its unforgettable opening scene to its last page, TEETH will haunt you for the rest of your life; you will be mesmerized, repelled, and thrilled. Van Belkom already has one Bram Stoker Award; I expect TEETH to earn him his second -- as well as the large readership he so richly deserves. Buy it.
Van Belkom has crafted an engaging "anti-vampire" tale that is as refreshing as it is gross... and gross it is... the book chugs along at a lightning-fast clip. This is van Belkom at his most gleefully sadistic, and it just might be the Bram Stoker Award-winning author's most frightening and disturbing work to date. Add to that strong, believable characters, chilling atmosphere, and a vampire that'll make your skin crawl, and BLOOD ROAD is must-read horror.
Fans of Wolf Pack will particularly enjoy the continuing story of the Brock family. Those new to the series will still find it easy to follow. Although not hardcore science fiction/fantasy, the rapidly shifting pace and believable characters will appeal to teen enthusiasts of this genre. The simple language is appropriate for those who may have difficulty with more complicated novels, yet the book contains enough edginess to not turn off reluctant readers. It is a recommended series for novice fantasy fans.
While obviously light on gore and violence, there's plenty of suspense here. It's wonderful to see kids' issues broached in the trappings of a genre story, especially one structured to get grade-schoolers thinking and talking. All in all, Cry Wolf is a great stepping stone for monster kids who aren't quite old enough to partake in the monster bloodshed.
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