The Wolf Girls: An Unsolved Mystery from History

Jane Yolen, Heidi Elisabet y. Stemple. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, $16 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-689-81080-0

Another addition to the Unsolved Mystery from History series, The Wolf Girls by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple, illus. by Roger Roth, urges readers to act as detectives. The volume presents the evidence, then asks aspiring detectives to evaluate: were two girls brought to an orphanage in India abandoned by their parents or raised by wolves in the wild? (Aug.)

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