The Pack

Gr 7 Up—The adventures of animal-shifter Flo continue, as she and the remaining shifters who survived the labs and the hunters in The Wanderers are now searching for a safe home. Horse-shifter Flo and bear-shifter Jett have been together their whole lives, and have never known anything outside the circus. Now that the circus has been destroyed, they and a small group of shifters who survived the vicious fights in the first book are searching for somewhere they can disappear from civilization and live in peace; they need to avoid EOS, the hunters who will capture them for the labs or kill them on the spot. One of the pack has heard that Rat, a prisoner of some wild shifters in the mountains, knows the way to a safe camp, so they set out to find and rescue him. While Rat does lead them to a large, flourishing pack, their hopes of a new life are dashed just as they arrive; they had been followed by hunters, and the huge colony is attacked. The high action starts from the first page, which may be confusing for newcomers to this world. Little background is given and there's a large cast of characters to follow, making it difficult to read this book as a stand-alone.