CHILDREN OF THE WOLF
Viking 1984
ISBN# 0-670-21763-8 Viking hardcover
ISBN# 0-14-036477-3 Puffin paperback

This novel is based on the famous case of the Midnapore Wolf Girls, Amala and Kamala, who were supposedly found in a wolf's den in Midnapore India in the 1920s and brought to a local orphanage. (My daughter and I have also written an Unsolved Mystery from History non-fictional account of the case, The Wolf Girls, published by Simon & Schuster in 2001.) This novel's fictional hero is Mohandas, also at the orphanage, who learns through the girls' tragic story about friendship and about the importance of language to make us human. There are also French and German editions of the book.

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