
The Skidderwolves
Ciara O'Connor(Author)
Gill Childrens (Publisher)
Published on 30. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-80458-416-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Skidderwolves are a pack of notorious wolves who keep everyone in twelve-year-old Rory McKenna's village awake at night by skidding their way down Main Street, sending sparks of electricity flying into the air. It's been bringing tourists to Shoak Village in their droves for years. But things take a dark turn when a local girl disappears suddenly, and the wolves are accused of attacking her. Overnight, an order is put out to kill them on sight. So, when Rory brings his dad's big, strange-looking comb into class five years later, his teacher Miss Hudson calls the police. It's definitely a Skidderwolf comb but why would Rory's dad have it? Rory discovers his dad has secretly been hiding the wolves all these years, trying to keep them safe, believing them to have been falsely accused. But before he can explain more, his dad is arrested, leaving Rory and his best friend to keep the wolves hidden, all by themselves. Only someone is watching them, and now both they and the wolves are in danger
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ireland
Publishing group
Gill
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
206 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80458-416-3 (9781804584163)
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Ciara O'Connor is a lecturer from Dundalk, where she lives with her family. She has worked as an advertising copywriter and as a reviewer for Inis magazine. She won the Caterpillar Poetry Prize in 2023, judged by Michael Rosen, and was longlisted for the Staŕog debut fiction prize for The Skidderwolves in the same year.