


The Locals have always been worried about the silent and serious man with long hair and beards carrying rifles on his back. He lives in an abandoned smokehouse situated near Anabelle’s family farm. However, Toby has made it his permanent home. Most soldiers have come in and out of the area for several decades majority only staying briefly before moving. Everything goes on as usual until one day, a new student named Betty Glengarry walks right into her class. She has always lived a quiet and stable life in Pennsylvania town. She’s about to turn twelve, and the war affects every corner of the town. Annabelle grew up in the shadows cast by two world wars. Wolf Hollow is the debut novel in the series by the same name. It was later shortlisted for the 2017 New York Historical Society Children’s Book Prize, the 2017 Carnegie Medal, and the 2017 Waterstones Book Prize, among other awards. The Wolf Hollow novel was named the 2016 New England Book Award winner, A 2017 Jane Addams Honor Book, and a 2017 Newbery Honor Book. Her second novel, Forgiving Billy, was nominated for the Pushcart Editors Book Award twice and won the 2006 Hackney Literary award. After four years, she left to become an Assistant Director at the Cape Cod Writers Center. Lauren became a certified English teacher at Sturgis Charter School in Hyannis in 2000. It comes from a series of lifetime observations, imagination skills, and ideas after many sacrifices: her debut novel, Those Who Favor Fire, was published in 1999 by Random House. Her work is triggered by inspiration or epiphany. Lauren later worked as a senior editor with an educational publisher in Toronto before she started a family and a business as a writer in 1988.

While at the center, she wrote a novel on how to be of help to the assaulted women in the American community. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in English Literature, after which she got employed at St. She has lived in California, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Canada, and Ohio. Her novel Wolf Hollow Won the Newberry Honor award. Lauren Wolk is a children’s fiction novelist, a visual artist, and an award-winning poet born in Baltimore.
