Julie of the Wolves Julie of the Wolves, Book 1, (Paperback)

from nbmars

This is a great "issues" book for middle graders published in 1972 about a 13-year-old Eskimo girl who must learn to adjust to a reality increasingly tangled up between the old world of traditions and the new world of the gussaks, or white-faced. In Part I of this short book, Miyax (called Julie ...

from cedargrove

Deserving of the Award It Won In spite of some of the detail of subject matter covered in the course of the novel, this book is rich in stunning visuals, and depictions of customs and rituals of disparate cultures - human and animal alike - and the expectations of both. The characters are well dr...

from rheasly

Julie, who is also known by her Eskimo name Miyax, is a thirteen year old girl who comes of age while living with a wolf pack in the Alaskan tundra. With both parents out of the picture and forced into an arranged marriage, Julie runs away from her home in an effort to reach her pen pal in San Fr...

from ctpress

Julie/Miyax is a 13 year old eskimo orphan who runs away from an "arranged" marriage with the son of a drunkard. Her plan is to travel to her pen pal's family in San Fransisco. She ends up lost in the Alaskan tundra with very little food and no shelter. Then she befriends some wolves and by mimic...

from debnance

A young girl is forced to befriend a pack of Arctic wolves as she attempts to escape from an intolerable marriage. The details of life with the wolves was nothing short of amazing; who would believe before reading this story that a girl could live among wolves and who would, after reading it, not...