Washer the Raccoon

Washer is different from his brothers, and he knows it. The youngest of three raccoon cubs born near Beaver Pond, he doesn't look quite right, doesn't feel quite right. When his curiosity leads him tumbling over Rocky Falls and far from his mother's reach, he enters a world that will never let him go easily. Captured by the cunning wolf Sneaky as food for his hungry den, Washer should be doomed. But Mother Wolf, still mourning her own lost cubs, sees something in the frightened little creature she cannot abandon. She claims him as her own. Now Washer must find his way between two worlds: the wolf family who raised him and the raccoon blood that calls him back. He has wolf brothers who don't know he's not one of them, and somewhere out there, a mother raccoon still searches for her lost son. This is the story of a creature who belongs fully to neither world and wholly to both a tale of identity, belonging, and the complicated loyalties that bind families together, however strange they may be.