Wolf by the Ears

Wolf by the Ears is a young adult novel by Ann Rinaldi, first published in 1991. It is about a young girl, Harriet Hemings, who is a slave belonging to Thomas Jefferson. She tries to decide if she wants to stay and be a slave or leave and take her freedom. While the whole time there are rumors about Thomas Jefferson being her father.

Wolf by the Ears won the 1994 Senior Young Reader's Choice Award.[1]

References

  1. ^ YRCA Past Winners
Novels by Ann Rinaldi
Episodes
A Ride into Morning (1991)  • A Break with Charity (1992)  • The Fifth of March (1993)  • Finishing Becca (1994)  • The Secret of Sarah Revere (1995)  • Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (1996)  • An Acquaintance with Darkness (1997)  • Cast Two Shadows (1998)  • The Coffin Quilt (1999)  • The Staircase (2000)  • Girl in Blue (2001)  • Numbering all the Bones (2002)  • Or Give Me Death (2003)  • An Unlikely Friendship (2007)  • Come Juneteenth (2007)  • The Ever-After Bird (2007)  • Juliet's Moon (2008) The Letter Writer (2008)
Dear America
My Heart Is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl (1999)  • The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim Boy (2000)
Other novels
Term Paper (1980)  • Promises Are for Keeping (1982)  • But in the Fall I'm Leaving (1985)  • Time Enough for Drums (1986)  • The Good Side of My Heart (1987)  • The Last Silk Dress (1988)  • Wolf by the Ears (1991)  • In My Father's House (1992)  • The Second Bend in the River (1997)  • Mine Eyes Have Seen (1997)  • Amelia's War (1999)  • The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color, 1832 (2000)  • Girl in Blue (2001)  • Millicent's Gift (2002)  • Taking Liberty: (2002)  • Numbering All the Bones (2002)  • Sarah's Ground (2004)  • Mutiny's Daughter (2004)  • Nine Days a Queen (2005)  • Brooklyn Rose (2005)  • The Color of Fire (2005)  • The Redheaded Princess (2008)  • My Vicksburg (2009)  • Leigh-Anne's Civil War (2009)  • The Family Greene (2010)  • The Last Full Measure (November 2010)