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Nine-year-old JT is given a cria (baby llama) to care for on his family's Alaskan llama ranch, but after a bear attack, the cria is injured and orphaned. JT must decide whether or not to put it down, while his grandfather is dying in the hospital at the same time. Despite some predictability in the story, the unique setting will engage readers.