I'm thinking kids 5-8th grade are going to enjoy this story great drama, lots of info on wolves, adventure and human/animal bonds. Wonderful tale!

I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley, Jane H. Wood, and The Book Guild. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read this novel of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest opinion of this work. I have added this British author, Jane H. Wood, to my favorite authors, and I am pleased to recommend her to friends and family. She writes a smooth story with a great deal of heart.

It is the breaking of the spring of 1972 in the southern wilderness of Canada's Northwest Territories. We are established in the mindset of a pair of grey wolves, the female Mira and her mate Joel, awaiting the birth of their new litter of pups, males Tuke, Glyth, runt Kegg, and daughter Skeena. Both Glyth and Kegg has unusual ears - ears that tilt and droop toward their eyes with golden hairs that extend past the points of those ears. The wolf family goes through life-threatening weather, illegal hunters, attacks by their own wolf pack who expel Joel and Mira when they refuse to allow the golden eared boys to be killed for their differences, which the wolf pack decides is the cause of the failure of the spring return of their normal hooved prey. When the family is attacked, Glyth is injured by a bite that involves his hip joint. Homeless and without allies, the family find themselves in extreme danger and only able to move slowly with the youngsters and crippled Glyth.

Eventually, after many trials and tribulations, we will see this tale through the eyes of Edmund Rainer, a rather frail 15-year-old boy who develops an extraordinary relationship with Kegg, whom he calls GoldenEars due to the unusual feathery golden hairs in the cub's ear tips. Ed saves 6-month-old Kegg from drowning with CPR when he is separated from his wolf family by raging floodwaters after a heavy spring rain. Edmund is not able to resuscitate the larger pup Glyth, washed up on the same curve in the river, but he does take him from the river's edge and hides the body from predators, leaving his scent on poor Glyth, before he and GoldenEars return to the wilderness cabin being rented by Edmund's Dad Sam and family friend Bert. It takes the canid family several days to track down Edmund and Kegg, who is secretly living in the tool shed while Sam and Bert are home and running wild with Edmund while the men are out fishing. The wolf family and the Rainers go through life-threatening weather, Edmund is injured by stepping into a bear trap and then is accidentally shot twice by forest rangers mistaking him for the illegal hunters who are killing the wolves who normally range in that territory. When it's time to return home from the hospital where Edmund was treated for weeks, the Rainer family goes through the Huxforest Wildlife Reserve to check on GoldenEars and Glyth who were sent there for Veteraniran care which entailed surgery for Glyth.
Edmund makes up his mind to become a forest ranger much to his over-protective mother's despair. The family makes a couple of trips over to check on the wolf pups. Eventually, Kegg is located yet again by his wolf family and 'rescued' with the help of Edmund. Kegg's relationship with Edmund remains close and their adventures are interesting and heartwarming. The almost instinctive fear and loathing directed at the wolf species by humankind is presented in an abstract way but there is still a bit of pain along the way. An excellent book for reading aloud to youngsters. And it warmed my old heart, as well.

This book was lost for a year in an old Kindle account - so sorry to be so slow in reading and reviewing.

Nothing is as humanizing and humbling as a tale where man meets beast and fights for what is right. HIGHLY recommend, especially in the middle grades.

An interesting story. Not what I expected, but I ended up really enjoyed this one, despite it being much longer than I first realized. Well written and easy to follow, I'm happy I found this story!

This was a very nice book to read, the story was well put together and well written with characters the you will love.

This is the second book whose narrator is not a human being I’ve read and I absolutely loved it. The narrator seems to be a third person omniscient woolf. This children’s book is packed with adventures, action, love, suspense, and feelings. We’re seeing the story through the eyes of the wolves and their stance is more often than not much healthier than that of many human beings! However, we are faced with feelings which ring a bell: treason, fighting for power (and the dangers of power), fighting for one’s family and loving one’s own.
Everything about this book is perfect: the plotline, the characters (the bad and the good!), the setting, the fabulous mountains and forest…
If you want to make a child happy (or their parents), you can give this book without worrying about it! It personally reminded me of Call of the wild by Jack London, to some extent.
Thank you Net Galley and The Book Guild for this treasure!

This book is a "MUST READ"! If you like wolves and a book full of adventure, action, suspense and drama, grab this book. I'm a huge supporter of wolves, so this book was right up my alley, I couldn't put it down. You will fall in love with Golden Ears. I would love to see the author write a part 2 of this book. Thank you The Book Guild via NetGalley for the free copy of this book. All opinions expressed are my own. I liked this book so much that I ordered a copy from Amazon. Thank you Jane H Wood for writing this wonderful book.