Yuki. NY: Yen Press.
Hana, a university student, falls in love with an intriguing man who turns out to be half-wolf. She accepts him as he is and they have two children, Ame and Yuki. However, their happiness is short lives when her husband is killed. Hana is left to raise two half-wolves or to hide them from society. She moves them to the country where they were free to be children or wolves. Yuki starts longing to assimilate into the human race and enter a school with children her age while Ame longs to live as a wolf and see the world through the eyes of the animals.
This is a good graphic novel for those 13-18 years old. It is a manga therefore it was created in Japan and translated to English in 2014. I recommend this graphic novel to anyone who is in the mood for a family book with kids looking to find their identity.
Hosoda demonstrates Havighurst's task that "adolescents have to adapt to their physical bodies." He takes the two half-wolf children and follows them as they are both trying to figure out how to live with the two identities within themselves (human and wolf) and to accept themselves and each other.
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