cover image RUNT

RUNT

Marion Dane Bauer, . . Dell/Yearling, $5.50 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-440-41978-5

Runt, the diminutive last-born of a litter of pups, hopes to prove his worth to his father and acquire a nobler name in what PW called a "tightly plotted, swiftly paced tale of a wolf pack." Ages 9-12. (Sept.)