A Wild Thing Author:Jean Renvoize The townspeople believed she was a demon spirit... They frightened each other with tales of a wild young creature glimpsed here and there for an instant, then vanished. In truth, Morag was a lonely young runaway, a girl, not quite sixteen years old, who had deserted the poverty and pain of life as an unwanted child to live out a harsh dream of ... more »freedom in the wilderness. Her home was a cave, her companions two goats and a moss-covered skeleton - until, one day, a boy wandered into her strange, solitary existence and brought with him all the joys and evils of the civilization she had fled.« less