I picked up this novel at a local book store last year and its by far my favorite.The story takes place in montana and tells the story of a black female wolf(Marta) and her life surviving in the wild and evading humans.For those of you who loves wolves and animals, this is a must have.The wolves in the story lived and died as their told.

story(book form):
Based on a true story, this powerful first novel dramatizes the tragedies and triumphs of a female wolf battling to find her way home after she and her pups have been relocated by well-meaning humans. Marta is trying to raise a trio of cubs in Pleasant Valley, nestled in Montana's Rocky Mountains. After the death of her mate, she has only an older lone wolf, Oldtooth, as her companion. Plucky Marta succeeds in her cub-rearing despite almost overwhelming obstacles, only to see her small pack captured, tagged and moved to Nine Mile Valley as part of an experiment to relocate the wolves into more hospitable terrain. Driven by her homing instinct, she inadvertently ensures the death of her offspring and her companion by trying to make her way back to Pleasant Valley. She stakes out new territory and finds a new mate who, with some unexpected human assistance, helps her raise another pack. Striving to inhabit the wild psyche of Marta with a minimum of anthropomorphic sentimentality, Bowen produces a genuinely eye-opening tale. She conveys both a reverence for the ways of the wild and a realistic grasp of wolves' fear of humans. And, despite a grim ending, she holds out cautious hope for experiments to find new homes in the Western woods for the wolf. Line drawings by Jane Hart Meyer, not seen by PW. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate selection.

real life event:
During this same time, the Pleasant Valley Pack formed near Marion, Montana . In early 1989, 2 mated wolves bore 3 pups (Sula,Ann,and Rann) in April. One of the wolves attempted to enter a sheep pen, and was shot and killed(Calef, the alpha male). Because of cattle depredation problems, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service decided to relocate the pack. Because of the relocation, the 2 remaining pups starved. The adult male was caught and killed in a trap(Oldtooth,beta). The female(marta,alpha female) migrated into the Ninemile drainage in Montana, found a mate(greatfoot) and in the spring of 1990, bore a litter of 6 pups. By July the female was shot to death. Soon after the death of their mother, the pups’ father was hit and killed by a car. The 6 pups were left to fend for themselves .

Idk, it might be good. ^^ XD Just kidding.