White Fang

Classic (fiction), Trade Book, Lexile 970

Set during the Klondike Gold Rush, White Fang tells a cautionary tale that illustrates what happens when a living creature experiences nothing but cruelty. White Fang is a wolf that lives a miserable life with the vicious Gray Beaver, enduring daily taunts and beatings. Suffering little kindness, White Fang becomes a fierce, dangerous animal. He escapes his master only to be adopted by an even crueler one who turns him into a fighting dog. White Fang is eventually rescued by a kind man and finally gets to live out his days loving and being loved.