Shawntay

Sixteen-year-old Shawntay has never set foot in a white man's town.

Raised in a hidden village deep in the Rocky Mountains by an English fur trapper and the Native woman he married, Shawntay can track, shoot, read, and speak two languages. When his father's trading party rides into Twin Pines one summer morning, the whole town turns out to stare at him.

Then the wolves come.

One Eye is the biggest wolf the territory has ever seen: black, half-blind, and smart enough to walk past every trap and poisoned bait the ranchers set. The night his pack kills a filly in the Davis pasture, Shawntay makes a choice that strands him on the wrong side of the mountains for the whole winter. There is a thousand-dollar bounty on One Eye's head, and that money would buy rifles, blankets, kettles, and flour for every family back in his village.

But the wolf is hunting too. And the meanest man in the county is riding the same trail.

Set in the Rocky Mountain West of the late 1800s and illustrated throughout, the third book in the Silver King series is a story about courage, hard winters, and the kind of mercy that can change a man. For young readers who love Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller, and for families looking for an adventure with faith at its center.