Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler

Cover Stories: Wolves, Boys & Other Things That Might Kill Me. The only daughter of a fishing and wildlife guide, KJ can hold her own on the water or in the mountains near her hometown outside Yellowstone National Park. Kristen Chandler s Wolves, Boys & Other Things That Might Kill Me ( read Book Harbingers great review ) got a paperback makeover this year, and I love the new cover. Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me by Chandler, Kristen and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. KJ Carson lives an outdoor lover's dream. wouldnt care less, but then she meets Virgil, whose mom is studying the controversial wolf packs in nearby Yellowstone Park.

Kristen Chandler (Goodreads Author) 3.67 Rating details 2,372 ratings 472 reviews. Over the summer, she turned from the blah daughter of a hunting and fishing guide into a noticeably cuter version of the outdoor loner. She writes persuasively about the great outdoors, smalltown dynamics and politics, and young love. Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me. Chandler's debut is a lively drama, saturated with multifaceted characters and an environmental undercurrent.

Together they run a fishing supply store and work as guides in the park, but when dashing Virgil moves to town with his progressive mother on a wolf research trip, KJ becomes determined to live down her reputation as a 'free-floating oddball.' She works on the school newspaper as part of her journalism class and teams up with Virgil, a photographer, to launch a 'Wolf Notes' column, which ignites outrage among those who view wolves as menaces (wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in a controversial 1995 program). 'All I know is that if he says I've 'bloomed' one more time I'm going to run away from home and become a shrub,' she says of her emotionally remote father. Sixteen-year-old KJ is a spitfire who is outgrowing life with her father (her mother died when KJ was three) in a small Montana town just outside Yellowstone National Park.

Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler