Wolves of the Beyond

Lone Wolf
*****
By Kathryn Lasky

What I like: The mix of magic and mundane.

Plot: A wolf mother gives birth to a deformed/malcadh/cursed pup who is taken away from her and left to die on a cliff about to tumble into a river by wolf custom that all deformed or cursed pups be left to die somewhere. The pup gets saved by a bear mother he later calls Thunderheart who has had her last cub killed by a cougar. He gets named Faolan and grows up to  be a wolf with paws in both the bear and the wolf world. He later goes out to find out what he is (he doesn't know about wolves) when Thunderheart doesn't return after going into a blizzard. There had been aftershocks after an earthquake lately.