Laughing Wolf
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Short-listed for the 2010 Snow Willow Saskatchewan Young Reader’s Choice Award and for the 2010 Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award
It is the year 2213. Fifteen-year-old Felix Taylor is the last person on Earth who can speak and read Latin. In a world where technology has defeated war, crime, poverty, and famine, and time travel exists as a distinct possibility, Felix’s language skills and knowledge seem out of place and irrelevant.
But are they?
A mysterious plague has broken out. Scientists can’t stop its advance, and humanity is suddenly poised on the brink of eradication. The only possible cure is Lupus Ridens, or Laughing Wolf, a flower once common in ancient Rome but extinct for more than 2,000 years.
Felix must project back to Roman times circa 71 B.C. and retrieve the flower. But can he navigate through the dangers and challenges of the world of Spartacus, Pompey, and Cicero? And will he find the Laughing Wolf in time to save his family and everyone else from the Plague of Plagues?
Nicholas Maes
Nicholas Maes is a high school history teacher and teaches classics at the University of Waterloo. His previous novels for young people are Crescent Star, Locksmith, and Transmigration. Maes' first Felix Taylor Adventure was Laughing Wolf, which was nominated for the Snow Willow Award. He lives in Toronto.
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Reviews for Laughing Wolf
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not a huge sci-fi fan but I love books like the Hunger Games and Laughing Wolf that put teenagers in positions where they must make life altering decisions. It was a neat blend of the future to the past as the protagonist had to travel to the past in order to save the future. I really enjoyed this fast-paced book and would recommend it to my Hunger Games fans!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In 2213, 15 year old Felix Taylor is quite an oddity in that he still owns and reads books and can speak several dead languages, including Latin. This just seems like a fun pastime that he shares with his dad, until the world experiences a pandemic that threatens to eliminate every human on the planet. There seems to be no hope, and no cure for this plague, until Felix's dad, from a stretcher, thrusts an ancient book into Felix's hands and explains that the world has seen this problem before and there is a cure! The problem is the cure is a flower, no longer in existence. Felix and a companion travel back to 71 BC to try to retrieve the flower before it's too late. This is a very enjoyable read; would fit well into a collection of speculative sci fiction. I particularly enjoyed how the subway system in Toronto played into the story, as well as the explanation of the consequences of 9/11. His companion, Carolyn, was a refreshing addition, and I really liked that she was the butt kicking heroine, and he was the bookish one. I'll definitely put a copy in my library. It packs a lot into just less than 250 pages.