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Thirteen-year-old Clay is a mud lark, scavenging on the banks of the Thames for anything he might sell for money to buy food. One day, Clay visits the camp of the circus that has newly arrived in town and meets Ollie, a girl about his age who lives with the circus. Ollie brings him to the cage of \u003cem\u003ethe last wolf in England\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMist, as Clay calls it, is fierce, angry, and indomitable, perhaps due to the cruel treatment by its tamers, which Clay secretly witnesses. From that moment on, Clay is resolved to give the wolf its freedom and return it to the wild. 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