Sammy Feral is a lucky boy. His family runs a zoo and so he spends his spare time hanging out with orangutans, crocodiles and snakes. But his luck has just run out. His entire family has been infected with a werewolf virus. Now his mum, dad and sisters are howling at the moon, craving raw meat and, worst of all, trying to infect Sammy.

I chose this book for my October Chatterbooks session - Halloween, werewolves - predictable maybe, but hey.
Of course I have to read each title a month ahead to make sure it is suitable before I hand it out to the group. This one was a quick easy read, written in the form of Sammy's diary and featuring black and white drawings of the main characters. I managed to read over half of it at the bus stop waiting for a bus to work that didn't come.
Sammy is an unlikely hero, but a likeable one. He is a good kid who wants to do the right thing, but who is prepared to bend the rules to help his family. He has a penchant for using strange similies and metaphors, which you wouldn't necessarily expect to hear from a boy his age - but then Sammy isn't exactly a normal boy, even before he becomes the only human in a family of werewolves.

I hope my group will enjoy it. I liked it enough to want to read the Yeti sequel, and that is a definite recommendation. ( )