Stiefvater, M. (2009). Shiver. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.
Grace remembers the time she was bitten by wolves almost killed. It seems painful, but she describes it as a friendly dog licking her, but bloodier. Grace, the human, is in love with Sam, the wolf. When some wolves kill Jack Culpeper, hunters invade the Boundary Wood to hunt them. Sam is hot and Grace finds him bleeding in his human form. She then realized that Sam is the wolf she was falling in love with. As she falls more in love with him, she decides to find a cure for Sam so he won't become a wolf forever. Jack's sister, Isabel, discovers that Jack is is alive and is now a wolf. When Grace and Sam are apart, Sam spends his days searching for Jack. He is afraid that Jack will expose the wolves's secret to the world. Isabel and Grace hang out more, as Isabel mourns Jack and Grace fears Sam for dead. One cold night, however, Grace is refilling the bird feeder in her snowy backyard when Sam emerges from the woods. Not because he's hoping to crunch a yummy bird in his wolf jaws. No, he is human. They embrace and speak each other's name.
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