Grace is a teenage girl in love with Sam, the wolf who saved her when she was eleven. Sam takes on human form for three months in the summer and returns to a wolf the other nine months. As Grace learns more about the wolf world, she is determined to find a cure for Sam before he becomes a wolf forever. Later she is bitten and in danger of turning into a wolf. There may be a possible cure of a meningitis injection, but Olivia refuses the cure. This is due to the fear that it could harm her, and she wants to be a wolf with Sam. Sam attempts to take the injection, but half way through he turns back into a wolf and runs away. This first book of the trilogy ends with Sam returning to Grace in human form. I think this would be ideal for teaching plot summary and conflict. There are many examples of man-vs-man and inner conflict. For example, Grace and Sam both struggled internally of whether they should or should not try the cure. The plot of this novel is a good example of Havighurst's theory that adolescents need to learn how to get along with peers. The characters had to work together to experiment with the meningitis cure. Their relationships were also slightly altered when once a character became a part time wolf altering his or her personality which in return affects external relationships.
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