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=Tanith- Sherryl Jordan= [|About Sherryl Jordan]

Chapter Summaries
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Chapter One- In this chapter Tanith introduces the main characters of the story and talks about her past and how she came to be known as "Wolf-Woman"among the rest of the clan. She lived wiith wolves when she was little, but then was found by the clan and kept as the queens daughter. She wonders about the wolves and the memories she still has from them.

Chapter Two-In this chapter Nolwynn tells Tanith about her sons and about how a youth called Gibran favours her.The men go to battle but instead of the women going as well the youth go instead to prove to the rest that they are men. media type="custom" key="8385372" align="right"

Chapter Three- In this chapter all the men and the youth have come back from their attack. They have a feast celebration and they bring back jewels,the best they have ever seen.They give their gifts to the girls they like. One of the young men brings back hair of a woman he fought against, he realised that is was the same as Tanith and tried to attack Tanith. A young man called Gibran gives the young Tanith a gift of wolf skin.

Chapter Four- Tanith wakes up after the night of celebration and partying and finds that the king has a new queen called Morag. She despises tanith, but tanith is the adopted daughter of the first queen who the king loved, so he insists on keeping her. She broke her back trying to save her daughter in a river, so is slowly dying. She talks to Tanith, but then she dies.

Character Profiles
MORAG by Katharine

Morag is quite jealous of the cheifs first wife and tanith. She wants to rule to village, and she thinks that tanith stands in her way. She is quite power-hungry, and racist (or wolf-ist?....) against tanith because she has black hair and wolf eyes. She lies to the chief, and he stands up for her untill when he's about to die and he realises that she's horrible. When he gets badly hurt, She leaves him because he is no longer a warrior. This is the main part of the book when you realise what kind of person she is.

GIBRAN by sophie

Gibran is the handsomest youth of the clan and he fancies tanith the "wolf girl" she does not yet know her feelings towards him but is sure that she is lucky. Gibran is that peace could be made between the two clans.

NOLWYNN By Carmen

Nolwynn is the cheiftan's (Ahearn) first wife and the only person he truly loves. He once had a daughter with her, but she drowned in a river during a storm. Nolwynn tried to save her but was hurt instead. She cannot move her legs and lies in her bed everyday but is not put to death because Ahearn loves her too much.