Shiver by Maggie Steifvater

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Shiver is a supernatural romance novel that is told from the perspectives of both Grace and her werewolf soulmate, Sam. Grace likes to be near the woods in her backyard and watch the wolves every winter. When she is nine, a wolf with yellow eyes saves her from being attacked by the other wolves. Every winter after that, Grace looks in the woods for her yellow-eyed wolf. When a local teen is killed by wolves, the townspeople form a hunting party. Grace runs into the woods to try to save her yellow-eyed wolf, when she comes across a wounded boy on her back porch with eyes that remind her of her wolf. Grace realizes this boy is her wolf in human form, and tends his wounds while trying to help him from reverting back into a wolf. Grace and Sam fall in love, but both know that Sam will return to wolf form with the approach of winter. When others in town are attacked, Sam and Grace find out the teenager that was killed by wolves is responsible, and now a wolf himself. They team up with his sister and try to find a cure. The story ends with a happy ending, as Sam is cured, and Grace and he can finally be together. 

For grades 9 and up.


Stiefvater, M. (2009). Shiver. New York: Scholastic Press.

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