The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1)
by Joan Aiken
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 780L · 159 pages · 1968
Why we'd hand it over
A 1960s adventure that holds up: two girls outwit a genuinely menacing guardian in a snow-locked Yorkshire estate, and Aiken's plotting is tight enough that adults reread it too.