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For Ingrid, spending the summer in her family’s small apartment in Parkdale, while her parents work and her best friend, Alice, travels to Hawaii, seems impossibly boring and lonely. So, when a letter arrives from her grandmother, the Countess Liliane Montesquieu von Puffdorf di Turbino de la Louve des Balazs, a grandmother she has ever even heard of, much less met, Ingrid is surprised and intrigued.
The Countess Liliane wishes to meet her grand-daughter, and has sent Ingrid a plane ticket so that she can fly to Hungary and spend her summer holidays on the Balazs family’s estate. Ingrid wants to go; she wants to meet this mysterious grandmother and learn why her father turned his back on his noble heritage and moved to Canada, where he works as a gardener. She begins to have strange dreams of a wolf, dreams so frightening that Ingrid is scared to go to sleep at night. As the day of her departure for Hungary approaches, it looks more and more as though the solution to Ingrid’s nightmares lies somewhere in, or under, her father’s childhood home.
Ingrid and the Wolf is a modern fairytale that will hold your attention right to the last page! It was nominated for a Governor General’s Prize for Literature for Children in 2006. Question: Why the fork?
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