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Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way is the third book in the Monster High book series by Lisi Harrison. It was released on September 20, 2011, but its thirteenth chapter was released earlier on April 13, 2012. Its focus-character is Clawdeen Wolf.

Plot[]

Always overshadowed by her six brothers and her fab friends, Clawdeen plans to finally strut her stuff in the spotlight at her upcoming Sassy Sixteen bash. But then the "Ghoul Next Door" video goes viral, and it's into the woods for the family Wolf. Clawdeen goes stir-crazy hiding out at her family's B&B with her annoying brothers until Lala shows up to keep her company. But is the vamp flirting with Claude?

Frankie can't believe that Brett betrayed her. Just when she thought she had sparked a new romance, it seems to have fizzled out. Still, Frankie is charged up and ready to fight for her rights. She refuses to run for the hills, and since her face isn't shown in the video, she can afford to stay in Salem. Who's with her? ...Hello? Anyone still here?

Melody wants to help put the smackdown on Bekka's Monster Home Tours, but she's kinda busy trying to get the truth out of her parents and keep Ms. J from sending Jackson into hiding. As she struggles to walk the line between normie and RAD, she starts to realize that people are actually listening to what she says - even Candace! Is Melody's newfound voice here to stay?

Summary[]

The book is told in the alternating perspectives of Frankie Stein, a girl made in her parent's lab, Melody Carver, a fifteen-year-old girl who feels like a misfit amongst her picture-perfect family, and Clawdeen Wolf, a werewolf, soon to turn sixteen, who craves independence from her overprotective family.

After the unblurred interviews of The Ghoul Next Door air, Clawdeen and her family immediately flee after she comes back from being en route to the Teen Vogue photoshoot. They go to the Hideout Inn, the family's bed and breakfast vacation inn that doubly serves as their hideout during the full moon. Clawdeen's five brothers – Clawd, Howldon (Don), Howie, Howlmilton (Rocks), and Clawnor (Niño) – are introduced, all of whom are incredibly protective over her, much to her chagrin. Soon to turn sixteen, and originally planning a Sassy Sixteen for the occasion, Clawdeen grows increasingly tired of her family’s protective nature and their belittlement towards her.

Meanwhile, the RAD hunt is renewed once more, and Frankie slowly makes her way to the underground cavern for the RIP meeting, quickly running low on her battery. The RADs are shaken by the hunt and unsure of what to do next. Cleo arrives and is initially treated with hostility due to her conspiring with Bekka, but she quickly clears her name. Viktor and Viveka arrive with a portable amp machine disguised as a Chanel purse for Frankie to keep herself charged. Lala's father and the leader of the RADs, Mr. D, speaks to the RADs from a monitor in the cavern, having already made arrangements for new identities, phones, and travel itineraries. Frankie's parents decide to stay in Salem to help Frankie fight back, like they promised in the previous novel, and Ramses also decides to stay, since Cleo was not part of the movie. The two are sad to find out that their friends are all leaving, with Blue going back to her parents in Australia, Lala being sent to her grandparents in Transylvania, and Deuce going back to Greece. After their phones are stoned by Maddy, and they are given vouchers for new ones, Frankie leaves with her parents.

Melody and Candace, back in their home, are also on edge due to the RAD hunt, and their involvement in helping them. Glory arrives home first, eager to hear Melody’s newly gained singing voice, though Melody does not want to comply, especially due to her suspicions of Glory not being her mother. Beau also arrives, overwhelmed by the number of requests at his plastic surgery clinic to be turned into RADs. Melody receives a text from Jackson requesting she meet him at a roadside diner. Candace drives Melody to the diner, and finds Jackson with dyed black hair, a new name, and a fake scar. He reveals his mother’s plan to take him to London, and urges Melody to help him convince his mother to stay in Salem. Ms. J returns from the bathroom and Melody successfully convinces her, under the condition that no one know where they are. Filled with hope, she leaves the diner in better spirits.

At the Hideout Inn, Clawdeen is already sick of living in close proximity with her messier brothers, especially as they are sharing a bathroom in order to reopen the inn as quickly as possible once the situation in Salem blows over. Her father, Clawrk, is stressed about leaving both Clawdeen and their mother, Harriet, alone while he goes to a construction job. He approves Clawd’s request to go back to Salem to perform for the football scouts coming to Merston High, since his coach does not care he is a RAD. He disapproves, however, of Clawdeen also wanting to go back and check the RSVPs for her Sassy Sixteen, and to get more clothes. Frustrated over this treatment, she hides in the backseat of Clawd’s car when he leaves for Salem, which he does not attempt to prevent, sympathizing with Clawdeen being treated unfairly by their family. The next day, they stay in their house while waiting for the normies, who have increasingly come to Radcliffe Way to gawk at the RAD’s houses, to leave, before checking to see if any other RADs are around. They go to the underground cavern and, seeing the pile of stone cellphones, receive all the confirmation they need. Clawd decides to take Clawdeen back to the inn, but she throws the car keys into the bushes before he can, forcing them to stay in Salem.

Frankie and Viveka go to the Apple store to redeem their phone vouchers. While there, Frankie befriends a few Lady Gaga fans watching her latest music video. She reveals she has been a “little monster” her whole life, but before she can elaborate further, she’s dragged out by a furious Viveka, who reprimands Frankie for revealing her RAD status. Frankie explains the term being used for Lady Gaga’s fans not connected to the RADs in any way. Viveka notes Frankie handling the situation well, and Frankie reveals she focuses on it as a way to not think of Brett. Melody, meanwhile, turns her attention to finding out the truth of her parentage from her mother. After dodging the topic for a long while, she finally confronts her mother, whose surprised expression confirms Melody’s suspicions, and she runs out of the house.

On Monday at Merston High, only Frankie, Cleo, Heath, and Billy have stayed in Salem; even Brett has fled. The NUDI and HUNT organizations are leading protests against each other and tensions are high. Heath gives Brett’s new number to Frankie, and she takes time to send a text, but quickly receives a response for her to never contact him again. Melody skips school on Monday, avoiding her parents who left earlier in the morning on their annual couple’s retreat trip. Wanting answers, she goes to Cleo's house to talk with Manu, though also encounters Cleo. Manu encourages Melody to find the truth from Glory instead of asking him. As the girls leave, they find Bekka and Haylee conducting tours of the RAD’s houses, encouraging them to also take souvenirs of the property. Cleo confronts the duo but backs off when Bekka also accuses Cleo of being a RAD. Fed up with Bekka’s behavior, she yells at the group to disperse and leave the RADs alone, which they comply with, shocking Cleo and Melody herself, and causing unique feathers to fall on the latter, which Cleo scoops up, intending to make into jewelry. After spending the night in a gully, Clawdeen searches for the keys to the car while Clawd goes to Merston for the football scouts. She hides upon overhearing Bekka and Haylee’s voices. The two find the car keys and incidentally throw them back in the bushes, right where Clawdeen is hiding. Hearing that Cleo is still in Salem, Clawdeen goes to her house to confront her. Cleo clears her name with Clawdeen, and the two happily talk but are interrupted by Clawd, who found out from a friend on the team that his coach intended to trap him. He and Clawdeen drive back to the inn, despite the latter’s protests. Frankie tries to keep busy in her room when she spots Lady Gaga’s sold-out concert tickets outside her window. The tickets are proffered by Billy, who, thanks to Candace’s encouragement, underwent a makeover making him completely visible, and he offers to go to the concert with Frankie, which she happily accepts.

On Wednesday, Melody, Cleo, and Frankie are in biology, waiting for Ms. J, when they are on the receiving end of Bekka’s monster tests, which she had also recently been conducting. Melody once again confronts Bekka, commanding her to tell the others that the real reason for the monster hunts was because of her bruised ego over Brett, preferring Frankie. Bekka, surprisingly, admits it, and following this lead, she also gets Bekka to admit that the RADs have never physically hurt her and that she has no contact with Brett. Lastly, she gets Haylee to admit that the reason she does whatever Bekka says is due to signing a contract in the eighth grade for indentured servitude, which doesn’t expire until the sophomore year of college, and which she unsuccessfully tried to break in the past. Melody commands Bekka to tear all her “friendship” contracts, freeing Haylee and her other friends. Bekka blames her former friends for Brett breaking up with her before leaving the class as a new teacher walks in. Using her new voice, she commands Cleo to give her the earrings she made from the feathers that fell on Melody yesterday and forces the substitute teacher to reveal why Ms. J was fired from her job. After finding out it was for harboring a RAD, Melody leaves to find Jackson and answer her questions.

At the inn, Clawdeen keeps busy by secretly giving a makeover to one of the inn’s rooms and employing her brother Niño to film the transformation on her DIY blog Where There’s a Wolf, There’s a Way. While filming, they are interrupted by an oncoming car, but the familiar music from the car causes Clawdeen to meet the people inside. Lala, driven by her Uncle Vlad, had come to stay at the inn after nearly starving staying with her grandparents, who are old-fashioned meat-eaters. Clawdeen is delighted at having a girl companion and a driving instructor. At the Carver’s residence, Candace and Melody are waiting for their parents to come back from their trip, with Melody testing her voice by playing truth-or-dare and forcing Candace to choose truth. When their parents return, Melody quickly confronts them about being her birth parents, and Glory confesses that they are not. After Candace was born, Beau and Glory were afraid they would not have another similarly perfect baby like her, and Beau took to medical extremes to avoid this. They regretted the decision later and decided to adopt, following a referral from another agency, not knowing anything about Melody’s birth mother, who had only given her a name. Relieved at knowing the truth, Melody takes a walk to clear her head when she spots a woman coming out of Jackson’s house. Believing it to be Ms. J, she tries to talk with her, but even when using her voice, the stranger does not stop walking away.

Through a series of texts, Frankie finds out that Brett had been texting Frankie’s old number, and had initially mistaken Frankie’s first text from her new number as a text from a news station. With the misunderstanding aside, Frankie agrees to meet Brett at the train station in Oregon City. Brett tries to make up for the documentary failure with Lady Gaga concert tickets, but Frankie sadly reveals her plans to go with Billy and rejects his attempts to get back together with her. Brett kisses Frankie before she gets on the train back to Salem, confusing Frankie even further. That night, Melody is tricked out of the house by Candace, pretending to be a college student living alone for a guy she also likes in college, and once again encounters the stranger from the previous night at Ms. J’s house. Melody’s rapid-fire questions reveal that the woman is renting the house from Ms. J. Melody is compelled to tell the stranger her plight regarding getting Ms. J her job back, and the stranger convinces her to do so without using her voice.

With the full moon coming closer, Clawdeen becomes more irritable as she receives driving lessons from Lala. Saddened at her lack of skill, Lala encourages her to continue, especially after she expertly applies her makeup, something she had never been able to do previously due to not seeing her reflection. Clawdeen notes that Lala and Clawd spend a lot of time together and have also pushed each other to try new things. After accidentally crashing the car, Lala suggests a break. Cleo texts her compliments to Clawdeen regarding the Sassy Sixteen tent being set up, and Clawdeen realizes with glee that her parents forgot to cancel everything. She hatches a plan to sneak out to the Sassy with Lala, and texts Melody, per Cleo’s suggestion, to spread the word about the party. Following the stranger’s advice, Melody meets with Principal Weeks and brokers a deal to give Ms. J her job back if enough student signatures are collected requesting her reinstatement. Melody goes around at lunch to collect the signatures, with Candace’s help, and they barely manage to get the last ones needed before the lunch period ends. Melody presents the signatures to Principal Weeks, who notes with amusement that they are mostly fake. Melody angrily tries to use her voice on the principal, disregarding the stranger’s advice, when she is interrupted by a phone call, and they are led out. Melody instead uses her voice to convince everyone in school to attend Clawdeen’s Sassy Sixteen, intending to use her voice at the party to convince the normies to accept the RADs and get back Ms. J.

On the night of the party, Clawdeen is surprised by Lala and her family throwing her a surprise birthday party. Though grateful for the gesture, she still plans on attending her Sassy and starts to get ready along with Lala, who is unsure of the idea and refuses to go along. Clawdeen decides to leave anyway, using her rudimentary driving skills but finds Harriet in the driver’s seat. Harriet orders the truth, and Clawdeen explains how her Sassy is important as an opportunity to have a day all about her and not her brothers or the family businesses. Harriet identifies with Clawdeen’s struggles for independence, recounting her own experience, and decides to drive Clawdeen to the party. Lala stops them before leaving, not wanting Clawdeen to do the driving, but is mortified when she realizes it is Harriet who invites her along. Frankie and Billy go to the Lady Gaga concert, before the party, where they have a great time and even share a kiss. They are forced to leave early when the heat of the concert hall melts both their makeup. They run into Brett and Heath, the latter offering to help them escape quickly, but Billy decides to stay, shedding his clothes and makeup and becoming invisible again, recognizing Frankie’s lack of interest in pursuing a relationship. Frankie, Heath, and Brett leave to go to the Sassy.

At the party, Melody is waiting for Clawdeen to arrive and to make her speech. When Clawdeen, Lala, and Harriet arrive, they are horrified to find several boys, whom Clawdeen recognizes as the same boys who terrorized her throughout middle school, defacing several of Clawdeen’s portraits. Melody makes the boys apologize, surprising Clawdeen, whose near-full-moon physical attributes, such as hair and nails growth spurts, are noticed and recorded by the boys. Harriet tries to escape, but Clawdeen stands firm and, when the DJ plays a song that the RAD girls love, goes dancing instead. The RADs dance to all the songs, shedding their disguises and intermingling with the normies who no longer mind their presence. Despite Billy’s loss of Frankie, he gains a new love interest in Spectra Vondergeist, who had been crushing on Billy since middle school. After the party, the RADs leave for their homes, now no longer afraid of being seen. Frankie is happy they are officially out, though restless in feeling she did more harm than good. Brett convinces her she was the spark to start the change, and kisses her in the open. Melody, meanwhile, follows a haunting voice that draws her back to Ms. J's house. Not wanting to admit the stranger was right, Melody is about to leave when she's spotted by Ms. J, now back, along with Jackson. Ms. J brings Melody inside and explains that she blasted heat to keep D.J. around, knowing Jackson would reveal their location to her and they had to stay hidden, but now that the RADs are out, they had moved back. While waiting for Jackson to finish his shower, Ms. J gives Melody a letter from the stranger who had rented her house. The letter reveals that stranger was Marina, Melody was the daughter she gave up for adoption, and that they are a species of bird-women called sirens, that can convince anyone to do anything with their voices. Melody is happy and relieved that she now knows the truth, that she was a part of the RADs all along, and is ready to start a new chapter in her life.

Lost Chapter (Whose Unlucky Number Shall Go Unmentioned)

The thirteenth chapter of this novel was absent from the original release of the novel, and was strangely released before this novel was. All the novels in the Monster High series follow a similar format where this chapter is missing.

For Chapter 13: Occupy Mall Street, see Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way (disambiguation).


Characters[]

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  1. Clawdeen Wolf
  2. Frankie Stein
  3. Melody Carver
  4. Candace Carver
  5. Glory Carver
  6. Beau Carver
  7. Marina
  8. Manu
  9. Cleo de Nile
  10. Lagoona Blue
  11. Draculaura
  12. Dracula
  13. Uncle Vlad
  14. Clawd Wolf
  15. Harriet Wolf
  16. Clawrk Wolf
  17. Howldon Wolf
  18. Howie Wolf
  19. Howleen Wolf
  20. Clawnor "Niño" Wolf
  21. Howlmilton "Rocks" Wolf
  22. Bekka Madden
  23. Brett Redding
  24. Haylee
  25. Heath Burns
  26. Billy Phaidin
  27. Spectra Vondergeist
  28. Principal Weeks
  29. Coral
  30. |Nefera de Nile
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Notes[]

Errors[]

  • In Monster High, there are said to be "no fewer than ten boys" playing outside the Wolf residence, all heavily implied to be siblings. In chapter 1, it is shown that the Wolf family only has five sons.
  • In chapter 2, when the RAD meeting concludes and Frankie and her parents are leaving, Frankie looks back at the RADs to survey the scene, and the text reads: "Lala and Blue giggle-sobbed as they recorded video messages on each other's phones." This, however, is impossible, as all of the RADs phones were turned to stone earlier by Maddy Gorgon.
  • In The Ghoul Next Door, Melody, inspired by Jackson's "full disclosure" policy with his mom, decides to adopt the same policy with Beau and Glory, and tells them everything about her involvement with the RADs. In chapter 3, Beau and Glory do not know about the RADs, and are also unaware that some of them live on their street.
  • In The Ghoul Next Door, in Billy's first chapter, he explains how, despite what the other RAD boys seem to think, he does not want to be the "invisible horndog who follows hot girls and eavesdrops on their conversation." In chapter 21, after deciding to be invisible again, Billy is all too eager to sneak into Lady Gaga's dressing room.
    • However, in the previous book, he explains that he does not chase after other girls because Frankie is the only girl he likes. After the concert, when Billy and Frankie run into Brett again, Billy realizes that there are no sparks between him and Frankie and goes invisible again. It is likely that after realizing Frankie will not feel the same way about him like she does with Brett, he abandoned his previous credo.
  • In chapter 18, Cleo texts Clawdeen her compliments on the tent set up for her Sassy Sixteen in the front yard of her house. In chapter 22, Clawdeen, Lala and Harriet are walking around the house to the tent that is now in the backyard.
    • It is possible that the tent was merely delivered to the front yard and spotted by Cleo, thus why she texted Clawdeen the news, though, in her text, it is not made clear if the tent had already been set up in the front yard.

Other[]

  • In chapter 24, it is mentioned that Heath has an older sister named Harmony. Considering that she is older and assuming she's a fire elemental too, it means she has known about her own, and his, RAD status longer than he has, but for some reason neglected to tell him.
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