Lauren's+Summary+of+The+Wolves+of+Willoughby+Chase

//The Wolves of Willoughby Chase,// by Joan Aiken, is about two young cousins working together to get through hard times. Bonnie Green and her cousin Silvia Green just wanted a summer full of fun and games when their parents were away on a sea voage. Things turned our a little differently when their malicious cousin comes to watch them and Mr. Green's whole property.

The cousin, Ms. Shipcart, plans to sell all of Mr. Green's land and positions. She also intends to send the girls of to a prison for orphans that is posed as a school. Once there they have to adapt from their lives of luxury to working as slaves, stealing little bits of food to survive. So the two Green girls have to escape a horrible school without detection, go to London to try to find the only family they have left while avoiding the blood-thirsty wolves that come out at night, and stop things at their house before the situation too out of hand.

Back at the house, Ms. Shipcart has sold all the servants, the livestock, books and all belonings of Bonnis and Silvia. Even worse, she changed Mr. Green's will, which had left everything to the girls, to herself and the owner of the orphan scool, her acomplice. Who can the girls trust to help them get their lives back? Help comes from both likely and unlikely places.