Wolf by the Ears

Wolf by the Ears is a young adult novel by Ann Rinaldi, first published in 1991.

It is about a young girl, Harriet Hemings, who is a slave belonging to Thomas Jefferson.

In the end she decides to pass as white (she is only 25% African-American) and live in the town nearby where she grew up.

Wolf by the Ears won the 1994 Senior Young Reader's Choice Award.

[1] Kirkus Reviews found that "The novel itself rambles and is repetitive; its style echoes the period, but not consistently" and "A valiant, earnest try, but not a successful one.