01895cam a2200277 4500 759885910 TxAuBib 20220321120000.0 220110s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780358468288 hbk. $16.99 0358468280 hbk. $16.99 (OCoLC)1291406132 NjBwBT eng rda HT# HT# OCLCQ GK5 RNL OCLCO TCH OCLCF GIP YDX JTB EHH Z#6 OCLCO VP@ GYG TxGR TxAuBib Lorentz, Dayna, author. Wayward creatures [Book] / Dayna Lorentz. First edition. Boston : Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021] 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Twelve-year-old Gabe doesn't know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives and his soccer-star friends barely have time for him. In a desperate plea for attention, Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire. In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill--tired of her family and longing for adventure--finds herself far from home. Already on animal control's watch for snapping at a child, Rill crawls into a cave, where she nurses her wounds alone. Gabe's and Rill's paths cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest through the court's restorative justice program. The damage to the land and both their lives is beyond what the two can imagine. But together, they discover that sometimes it only takes one friend to find the place where you belong. -- From dust jacket. 20220321. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Coyote Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Forest fires Fiction. RV8