Julie of the Wolves (HarperClassics)

The Julie books (there are two others were) some of my all-time favorite books. I adored them as a kid. Ignore the people saying it's inappropriate, they just want to stick their head in the sand and pretend nothing bad has ever happened to Inuit women or Alaskan wildlife. I read this book in the fourth grade and was not at all phased. Anyone with an interest in history, culture, Alaska, wolves, animals, nature, coming of age stories, survival stories, or just darn good reads will find something to like here.

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Julie of the Wolves is a story about a girl named Miyax who was living with her father at seal camp. When her father went out to sea, Miyax's aunt Martha came to take her to live with her and attend school. Julie got married when she was 13 and then she ran away. She had a friend named Amy who is her pen pal. She was going to see Amy after she ran away, but she got lost on the tundra.

Julie is an Eskimo. She has black hair. Julie learned to talk to the wolves by watching how they communicate. She gets taken into the wolf pack and becomes friends with them. She gets food, and learns to survive on the tundra. I think I could relate to the character in only one way - I really like wolves, dogs and lots of other animals. Julie gets to actually see and be with wolves however, and I have never seen one in real life before. I like Julie's character because she is smart. I have not met anyone who knows that much about wolves and how they communicate with each other.

I like this book because Julie gets to be friends with wild animals and they take her into the wolf pack. I also like the book because Julie always has a "surprise" in every chapter. (Amaroq and the pack leave.) I also like the book because when the author wrote a description of a part of the tundra, I could get a picture of what it might look like for real. I did not like the book because of how Julie eats whatever animal she finds. But of course she was starving. Another thing I did not like in the book was the names of the wolves. They were a little hard to follow.

Julie and the wolves

Jean George

Pgs: 170

By: Stephanie Reisenberg

Bark! Bark! Howl! Howl! Armrog and the rest of the pack might be the only help that Julie can get to survive in the harsh parts of the Arctic. Well maybe there is more help then she thought.

Jean Craighead George, is a famous book writer who writes many wonderful books like "JULIE OF THE WOLVES"', A wonderful book that expresses feelings. It seems so realistic that you can actually visualize what is happening.

Lost in the cold Arctic, little food, and a pack of wolves is all Julie has to get to civilization. Struggling to survive but trying as hard she can to help the wolves get through the hunting season with out getting killed by the hunters. There are many problems from being stuck in the middle of nowhere.

Bang! Bang! Goes the gun the leader of the pack, Armrog is shot and dies. Luckily Kapu Armrogs pup gets away from being shot, because Julie called him over and told him to lie down so she can put snow all over him so they don't see him and kill him. After the hunters left Kapu and the pack went over to Armorg and howled for his death.

I would recommend this book to you because if you like books where people are stuck in nowhere with no one else then this book is just right for you. If you like a book that has adventures and eating anything you can to survive then this book is will be perfect for you. This book has no violence. This book is a wonderful book that will drag you in and make you wish there was more to the story.

Thirteen-year-old Julie has run away from the life that has been created for her when her father has disappeared. She is made to marry a local boy who is not of average intelligence and try to fit into a modern gussak, or American, lifestyle in Alaska. The problem is, she was raised as a traditional Eskimo. At a particularly trying time for her, she packs up a few belongings and runs away, planning on crossing the tundra herself to get to where she can catch a plane to San Francisco and start a new life.
Several days out, she is having trouble finding food, but she is able to study the habits of a pack of wolves and learn how they communicate. She becomes a part of their pack and they look out for her on her journey. When she does finally get to the town, there is a BIG surprise waiting for her - but I won't spoil that for you.
Like any of George's books, this book sends a message of how "civilization" has gotten out of town and helps people to vicariously move out into the country and survive off of the land. My only problem is the three sections of the book can be a little incongruous and occasionally there are some very long passages between natural break points making the book that much more difficult for middle grade readers. However, if this it the right book for them due to the topic, they will be deal with the length of the sections.
Why 4 stars?:
The sections can be long, but it is written on a level that appeals to its target audience. It is somewhat selective, as the naturists, and those who are against the increasing spread of cities and decreasing of natural environments will appreciate it. There is also a strong sense of pride in one's heritage that comes out.

Julie of the Wolves When Miyax was very young her mother died and she was sent to live with her aunt. At the age of thirteen she had to get married and live with her husband Daniel and his parents. She ran away because Daniel mistreated her. While trying to find her way to San Francisco, California She got lost in the wilderness. She lived with the wolves in the tundra and became part of their family.
She wanted to live with her pen pal Am. Amy called her Julie. Miyax found a bird and named it Tornait, spirit of the birds. One day the hunters killed Amaroq the leader of the wolves. She decided to live in the tundra. They told her Kapugen, her father was still alive. Miyax wanted to live with her father, but founds out that he lived a new life style, not the Eskimo way. Will she go back or stay with the wolves?
I think Miyax was smart because she made a name for each wolf cub. Like Sister, Jello, and Kapu. I also think she�s very smart because she studied the wolves� movements and learned enough to be accepted in the pack. Amaroq is a very good leader. Also a row model for the cubs like Kapu. Because when Amaroq died Kapu became leader.
I really liked this book. Because it shows how far Miyax would go to get a better life. I also liked it because it talks about wolves, and how each wolf is different from each other. I recommend this book to any body that likes animals. Specially wolves, or dogs.

This is a lovely and compelling story. More than just a coming-of-age tale, it is a tale of survival. Our young heroine has endured considerable tragedy in "modern" life; her time on the vast and unforgiving tundra will test her in ways many adults could not manage. She shows intelligence, drive, persistence, patience, empathy and spirituality. She is truly torn and her final decision on whether to stay on the tundra as Miyax or return to a village as Julie is a heart-wrenchingly difficult one.

George paints a desolate landscape that still has beauty and majesty. Julie's character unfolds as her confidence in her skills grows. We feel her excitement and despair. Relish her successes and worry over her missteps. The book is aimed at children ages 10 and older, but adults will enjoy it as well.

Christina Moore does a wonderful job performing the audio, bringing not only Julie but the animals and landscape of Alaska to life.

Each year our family chooses a book for our Family Book Club. We read it, discuss it, and do an activity based on the book. It was my turn to select the book this year. Although I had read JULIE OF THE WOLVES aloud to two of our kids in the 80s, and shared it with my Grandma (who said she read it twice and loved it), I decided to bring it back to us as a family. It was a great selection! The ending caught me off guard. I hadn't remembered it, and now, it was hard for me to accept. I wondered if I had changed or life had changed or if I had just forgotten what I felt on first reading it. But it sparked so much thought and discussion about changing times and ways, and curiosity about what is happening now. And soon we learned that Jean George had returned to the story twenty years later (but 10 minutes in the story's time) and carried on. We hadn't known there were two sequels. We found many other topics of discussion - acting in the face of fear, learning to read nature, impact of others on our self-perception, holding onto tradition and deep values, struggling against the current, and of course - wolves and power and justice and wondering what is to come. If this book was a part of your reading as a child, I think you'll enjoy making its re-aquaintance. And if you have never read it, it will take you on an adventure. Yes, it's a children's book, but for all ages. Learning Jean George's own story of life and her original intentions for the research on this book, made it even more fascinating. Oh yes, our Book Activity? We divided into two groups, assigned each of us the role of a character from the book, and acted out what we did --- after the final sentence of the book. We also had pre-assigned one of us to read the next book, JULIE, and entice us with some highlights. Enjoy!

Miyax has always lived

with her father,but when she is seven she is taken to live with her aunt and go to school.When she has to marry someone she dosen't like, she runs away to San Francisco to met her pen pal Amy. But she gets lost in the tuntra and over time becomes accepted in to a wolf pack and lives with them untill summer is over. When the pack's leader is killed(for no reason), Miyax is crushed. He had been like a second father to her. When she keeps moving she runs into a hunter,his wife,and child.They tell her that a man named Kapugan has been living in the village near by. Miyax was suprised because Kapugan was her father and her aunt told her he was dead.

When she gets to the village its hard for her to make the wolf pack leave her. She is sad to say good bye to Kapu,the new leader of the pack. When she goes to see her father she is so happy to see him. But she is very upset to see that her father doesn't go by the Eskimo ways any more. In the end, Miyax relizes that the hour of the wolf and the eskimo is over. I think this book was good because its a little sad and it a little happy.I think Miyax was very brave and strong in this book.

Of all the classic varieties of conflict that are used to drive a plot, my least favorite would have to be "Man vs. Nature." Survival-in-the-wilderness adventures just don't excite me. Probably that's because I'm more interested in psychology and ideas than in "practical" concerns, but it might also have something to do with my inability to envision some of the action: inevitably there are pages and pages about building a shelter or inventing some clever device using materials readily at hand, and it's about as much fun for me as reading one of those little booklets that tell you how to assemble furniture. No, give me a good "Man vs. Man," or "Man vs. Self," or "Man vs. Society," or "Man vs. Fate," but spare me the survival narratives.

I never would have gravitated to "Julie of the Wolves" if it weren't for the wolves. I love dogs and wolves and take a special interest in canine/lupine social behavior, so I was interested to read a story about a girl who learns to communicate with wolves by watching how they interact with each other, and eventually becomes accepted as one of the pack. George's descriptions of lupine behavior and pack hierarchy are accurate, if perhaps a bit oversimplified, and the individual personalities of the wolves are richly drawn. It was the noble alpha male Amaroq, his courageous yet nurturing mate Silver, his loyal second-in-command Nails, the outcast Jello, and Amaroq and Silver's five playful pups that made this novel a delight to read.

Were it not for the ending, I would have given "Julie of the Wolves" four stars. The ending didn't sit right with me. It's not that I can't deal with sad reality or moral ambiguity, but the ending just seemed tacked-on and out of line with everything that had come before. I don't know why George would spend 165 pages documenting Miyax/Julie's growing sense of harmony with nature, appreciation for the traditional Eskimo way of life, and confidence in her ability to get by on her own, only to make a decision in the final two paragraphs that seemed to shrug aside easily everything she had come to love and believe in. The conflict between old and new, tradition and modernity, Eskimo culture and the white man's ways, had been an ongoing theme of the book, so it didn't seem out of place that Miyax would struggle in the end and have to accept a compromise. She just doesn't struggle *enough*. Her change of heart is sudden and the novel ends abruptly, with the shortest denouement I have ever seen.

"Julie of the Wolves" is a gently exciting, genuinely moving work of fiction, but it falls painfully flat in the end.

This story of survival on the Arctic tundra will hold the interest of boys as well as girls, despite the fact that the protagonist is a 13-year-old Eskimo girl. Part One describes the life Miyax endures when she finds herself alone on the tundra as autumn approaches. Realizing that she is dependent on a wolf pack, she lies quietly for hours to observe all their social interactions, so that she can gain their trust and ingratiate herself into the pack as if she were a cub. She respects and grows to love the fearless leader, whom she names Amaroq. Identifying all the members of the pack she focuses on the young Alpha male cub, Kapu--so named to honor her lost father, Kapugen.

Part Two is flashback; how she and her father became separated when she was a little girl; how she was raised in an Americanized village, where she became Julie Edwards. Having acquired a pen pal in San Francisco and been forced into a teenage marriage with a mentally-retarded boy, Julie decides to flee so-called civilization and escape on the wild tundra, to reach the coast and catch a ship--working her way to San Francisco. Her odyssey involves hardship, loneliness and remembering the Eskimo ways taught by her father: to live in harmony with nature and respect all living things; to kill only

for food or self-preservation. The long winter months alone force her to examine her ideals.

In Part Three she must choose her path several times over: hardest of all is to leave her beloved wolf pack, without whom she would have died many times over. But where will she find a true family and sense of belonging to the land: with Amy in San Francisco, with kind Eskimos in a village, or with whites who cater to the tourist trade? This story quickly grasps the reader's interest, for it is truly a tale of survival on three levels: against the elements; survival of the infant self to remain her own person; and against the encroaching American civilization which threatens to destroy her Eskimo heritage, for

it has already seduced one dear to her heart. Which path will Julie-Miyax choose; how will she find happiness and self contentment as she approaches womanhood?

This book Julie of the Wolves is an exciting adventure story of a 13 year-old Eskimo girl named Miyax, also known by the English name Julie. She is running away from an unhappy arranged marriage. She decides to go to San Franscisco to live with her pen pal Amy. She sets out across the tundra and finds a deep connection with nature. She loses her way and has a thrilling struggle for survival. She finds a pack of wolves and tries to learn their language in hopes that they will accept her into their pack and give her food. When she tries to communicate with the leader of the wolves Amaroq, he ignores her. While trying to get Amaroq's attention, she struggles with an inner conflict between her old Eskimo traditions and the new ways of modern living. "She says that she is an Eskimo, an as an Eskimo she must live. She would live with the rhythm of the beasts and the land." The only problem is that "the seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone." As she tries to resolve this conflict, she faces many challenges. Does Miyax starve to death on the tundra? Does she make it to San Franscisco to live with her pen pal Amy or does she return to her husband Daniel? Will she have to choose between the old ways and the new? Read Julie of the Wolves to find the answers. You will be glad that you did!

This book is so wonderful! Miyax is known to her Eskimo village or Julie to her pen pal in San Francisco, CA. Miyax's father went away; now Julie had to live with her evil Aunt Martha. Miyax's father, Kapugen, said that when Miyax was 13 she could marry a boy named Danial. Miyax did not like the way Danial treated her, so she ran away to the Tundra! Julie did not know how to get food. Then a couple days later a wolf-packed accepted her in their pack. One day, Julie got to worrying about keeping up with the pack. Julie travels a little bit each day. Then one day she sees dogs pulling a sled. Miyax said, "Howdy", and the people came to Julie's house. There were three people Atik, Uma, and their baby. They started talking about a guy named Kaupgen. Julie acknowledges it was her father; she packed up and headed for this town. Soon she found the town. Will Julie go dwell with her father or stay in the wilderness? Julie of the Wolves is a terrific book. It's adventurous and amusing to read.

Would you like to hear about Julie of the Wolves? Julie, an Eskimo girl, flees a marriage and gets lost in the Alaskan wilderness. She depends on wolves to retrieve food. On the tundra, Julie strives to find anything to survive with. She finds a caribou antler, a leg bone, or a hipbone. She undertook to hunt lemmings. Julie said, "They're all gone!" The wolves transfer to their winter grounds, and now she's all alone. She packs up and leaves to Point Hope. She knows she is close to a little town called Kangik, AK. On the way there, she meets a friend of her dad's. She thinks her dad is dead. She lets him spend the night with her. He leaves the next morning. Ameroq, the leader of the wolves, comes to her, but before he gets there he gets shot down by a plane. Kupu, the second leader, gets wounded ,and Julie brings him back to health. Will Julie live with the wolves, or will Julie live in the town? This book is for all readers. This book is interesting.

Great works of literature not only tell a story, but also teach lessons that can be related to everyday life. Julie of the Wolves is an allegory that encompasses many invaluable morals and thought-provoking questions.
Julie is a young girl trying to survive alone on the Arctic tundra. She learns how to communicate with a pack of wolves and in doing so she was able to stay alive. This shows that if we work with animals, we can learn more about the world around us. Because we do not want this knowledge to be lost, we as humans must do out best to save and protect animals. This lesson relates to the current issue of drilling for oil in Alaska. While some people want to destroy the tundra's beauty in exchange for money, they forget the important of the rare life and beauty of the arctic wilderness.
Another vital lesson of the story relates is about the struggle between the Eskimo culture and the American traditions. In the beginning, Julie is a mix of Eskimo and American, which is displayed by her two names, Miyax (Eskimo name) and Julie (American). Towards the end of the book, the Eskimo culture begins to die out. Miyax is unaware of this throughout the novel because of her isolation from society.
This book deserves its four stars because of its many morals and its incredible descriptions of the tundra. The only reason this book lost a star is because, at times, the lack of dialogue gets slightly boring. Otherwise, it is an excellent, thought-provoking book.

This book is about a girl named miyax [julie] who goes to school and is forced to marry a boy by her aunt. Rhe boys name is Daniel. He gets all weird and starts acting up so she leaves him and runs away to the tundra. after days with little food she sees a pack of wolves and tries to be a"wolf". After being with them for a long time she gets some respect and gets some meat from a caribou. She saves it a makes a house and puts it in a cabnit in the cellar to store for later. She start hanging out with kapu, one of the small pups soon to be a leader, and soon after that jello takes her food and sack but is killed by the pack for he was no use to them any more. Then weeks which turn into months pass. Then she finds a bird and calls it Tornait. One day while Amaroq is training kapu to be the leader if something were to happen to him and something did. That day a hunting passed bye and started to shoot at Amarow and kapu, luckly kapu was able to hide under something but amaroq was dodging bullots like and ant trying to run from the rain. Then she gets something along the lines of homesick, so she goes home to kapugen,her an eskimo dad, but when she gets there she finds a women in her house who is he dads wife. Ellen, kapugen's gussak wife, cooked some food. Then sadly, Tornait died from a cold. then she held toem, a thing that holds spirits of loved ones like Amaroq, and sang to Amaroqs spirit.

Miyax is an Eskimo girl. She lives with her father Kapugen happily in Alaska. One day when Miyax's dad disapears on a hunting trip Miyax is sent to live with her aunt. To make Miyax's life worse she's forced to marry her son Daniel. Things then go too far and Miyax runs away to her pen pal Amy who lives in San Francisco. Miyax gets lost in the Alaskan wilderness and decides that to survive that she'll have to get a pack of wolves to accept and feed her like her father had once done. Miyax then must learn the way of the wolves and to be a true Eskimo like her father has taught her to be for so long.

I enjoy animals a lot so Julie of the Wolves was a great book for me. It was confusing when the author switches from Julie with the wolves to Julie without the wolves and back again. Overall it was a great book and made me not want put it down. Jean Craighead George does a great job explaining the characters and she gives you a great visual of the surroundings. I recommend this book to any animal lover or anyone in need of a good book.

6th grader Madison, WI

Miyax's Great Adventure
Miyax, the main character, is thirteen years old and has to go and live with her aunt. She has an unexpected marriage to a boy named Daniel. She does not like her husband, Daniel. She decides to run away from her aunt and Daniel. She gets welcomed into a pack of wolves. Here she gets food and names the wolves. Miyax named the leader of the pack Amraque. She tries to survive in the Alaskan Wilderness with the wolves. Will Miyax survive in the Alaskan Wilderness? I like this book very much, because it is realistic fiction. Also because the climax is very exciting. If you read this book I am sure you will learn something. I learned that the wolves eat big chunks of meat and regurgitate the food for their pups. There is also a sequel to this book. It is called Julie Sky. If you read this book, I am sure you will like it.

Miyax, an Eskimo girl who is called Julie in English, is fourteen and has run away from her arranged marriage. She has a pen pal in San Francisco and she thinks if she can just hike to a nearby town with an airport, she will be able to get to her friend. Before her father left on a fishing trip and never came back, he was a great hunter and could survive in the wilderness, and he had taught Miyax much about survival. She thought everything would be fine.

But then, on her way to the airport, Miyax gets lost in the Alaskan wilderness. Her food supply runs low, and she knows that the harsh winter is coming upon her fast. Near where she is camped is a pack of wolves--four adults and five pups. Miyax knows that wolves take care of each other and if she can just get herself accepted into their pack, they will make sure she has enough food to survive. So she begins studying the way they interact and speak to each other, until she is ready to try imitating them.

I liked the descriptions of the wolves and the ways they interacted. I thought it was interesting to read about their body language and communication. I didn't like the ending of this book, though. After going through so much and being so strong, it seemed like at the end Miyax was defeated.

I enjoyed this book because I like how the author keeps the reader thinking about what is going to happen next. However, I did not like the ending. It was hard to concentrate on the book because it was hard to follow the book. I liked the genre and I recommend it to whoever likes the wilderness and adventure, because there is both. The plot was realistic because it took place in the wilderness, and there is a wilderness in this world. I learned that you should not run away if you don't like something, because you could get lost and hurt. If the author made her words more clear, and easier to understand, then I would read another book by her. I did not like how the book leaves you hanging. I was also kind of sad that the leader of the pack died.

I like Julie of the Wolves, because it is exciting. It is realistic fiction. Julie, the main character, has to go to school one day. Her father has to go to war. When she was thirteen, she married Daniel.
Daniel goes crazy, so Julie runs away in the Alaskan Tundra, the setting. She finds some wolves, and she watches them for a few weeks. Then she becomes a member of the pack. One day she knows she has to leave.
One day Julie leaves, but the pack follows her. She likes their company. Julie remembers about the letter from Amy her pen pal. She decieds to go live with Amy.
Amy lives in San Francisco. She was close to the ship that was going to bring her to San Francisco, when she said to her self that I have a choice to live like an Eskimo or like a plain girl.
I recommend this book to all readers!

This book is for people who love wolves, companionship, and adventures! This book is so good you don't want to miss any of it or put it down! This book is a touching book that has so many details you can picture it in your head! I loved this book and I hope you do too!

This book is about a girl named Julie. She has to live in the arctic with a pack of wolves if she wants to live. Her father Kapugen has left her to go seal hunting and so that she can go to school and never returned. She had been living with her aunt but ran away. She has to learn how the wolves speak to each other by watching them and remembering what they do in order to get food from them. Then she marries a boy named Daniel who is a little shy and has problems. Ever since she married him people had been making fun of Daniel and she ran away again. If you want to find out what else happens read Julie Of The Wolves by Jean Craighead Geoge!

Miyax, the main character, lived in Barrow, Alaska. She got married to Daniel. She did not like him. She ran away to the setting that is the Alaska tundra. Little by little she was accepted by a pack of wolves. Half of the reason she left Barrow was, because she wanted to live with her pen pal in San Francisco. She always flashes back to things her father said and taught her. As she is making her way to San Francisco, the leader of the wolf pack gets shot. Miyax carves a totem to remember Amorq. Will Miyax get to San Francisco or will she give up? I recommend this realistic fiction third person point of view book to anybody that would read it. This book is very interesting and good. If you want to know the exciting climax read on. I hope you like the book. You should learn quite a bit of information. I learned a lot. I loved this exciting book! Have fun and enjoy!

Fantastic story! This was so captivating and reading others reviews that it was boring and dull have left me shocked. Good literature doesn't need to be action packed. This story is about an appreciation for tradition, it's about determination and perseverance, and integrity. I will never live the way she did in this story but I can certainly take away from it. Isn't that what good books do? Challenge you to grow, whether you agree with the characters or not?

Julie of the Wolves was very inspiring to us. We highly recommed you read it. Julie is very canny about surviving in the wild because her father was a good teacher. Julie was forced to marry at the age of 13 to a boy named Daniel. He was very mean to Julie so she ran away to Point Hope. When she was walking she meets a pack of wolves that accepted her into their pack. Getting close to Point Hope she found a bird and named it Tornait. It kept her company, When she saw some oil barrles she knew it meant she was getting close to her final destination,Point Hope. Will she stay with the wolf pack or go to Point Hope? Julie of the Wolves is an amazing book.

Julie, known as Miyax to the Eskimos, but Julie to her pen-pal in Florida, seeks her pen-pal's house after many unfortunate happenings. For one, she was married to Daniel, a boy, at the age of 13. For another, her mother died at an early age of Miyax's life. Her father went out in his canoe to fight and never came back. Miyax believes he is dead. As she is searching throughout the alaskan wilderness for "point hope" so she can find Amy, her pen pal, she meets a pack of wolves. Amaroq, the leader, despises her at first, but when she learns to speak their language, he accepts her into the pack. I cannot tell you much more, for I may spoil it for you. JULIE OF THE WOLVES really DOES deserve a newbery medal, and I am glad it got it! You really should read this book, for it may cross the barrier of human and animal. We are not much different, you may find. And perhaps the animals are more peaceful. Man kills one another sometimes, yet the wolves do not unless they absolutely have to, as with Jello, an angry wolf in their pack. I enjoyed this book, and made me understand the eskimo's religion a bit more. I also read the 2nd book, which is just as good as the first, with not one sour note in the words! Try the whole trilogy of Miyax's adventures! Here are the titles: Julie of the Wolves, Julie, Julie's Wolf pack.

Julie, known as Miyax to the Eskimos, but Julie to her pen-pal in Florida, seeks her pen-pal's house after many unfortunate happenings. For one, she was married to Daniel, a boy, at the age of 13. For another, her mother died at an early age of Miyax's life. Her father went out in his canoe to fight and never came back. Miyax believes he is dead. As she is searching throughout the alaskan wilderness for "point hope" so she can find Amy, her pen pal, she meets a pack of wolves. Amaroq, the leader, despises her at first, but when she learns to speak their language, he accepts her into the pack. I cannot tell you much more, for I may spoil it for you. JULIE OF THE WOLVES really DOES deserve a newbery medal, and I am glad it got it! You really should read this book, for it may cross the barrier of human and animal. We are not much different, you may find. And perhaps the animals are more peaceful. Man kills one another sometimes, yet the wolves do not unless they absolutely have to, as with Jello, an angry wolf in their pack. I enjoyed this book, and made me understand the eskimo's religion a bit more. I also read the 2nd book, which is just as good as the first, with not one sour note in the words! Try the whole trilogy of Miyax's adventures! Here are the titles: Julie of the Wolves, Julie, Julie's Wolf pack.

I enjoyed this book a lot. I currently have about three copies because every seems to think that since my name is Julie I have to read this. It is very enjoyable. I took away one star only because parts of it in the middle are a little boring. Otherwise it is amazing. The life of a wolf pack from a human. Myax is strong and brave, and she still manages to seem like a real teenager. Most of the secondary characters were well thought out as well. The wolves each had a different personality, they weren't all the same. As to the 1 star reviews. Most of them were saying that this is not a book that children should be reading but really we will learn all of this stuff eventually. There is one slightly sexual scene but it lasts one page and nothing actually happens. Also as for the death, we all deal with death at some point in our lives. By the time I was in Kindergarden three people that I cared about had died. Children don't need to be so protected. This is one of the better books to learn these things from. I read this in the 3rd grade by recommendation from my teacher. It is a very well written book.

Julie of the Wolves
Julie of the Wolves is a touching story that explains the life of a young Eskimo girl named Miyax, or in English, Julie. Julie is lost on the tundra and cannot find her way home... Until she finds a pack of wolves and becomes friends with them. Julie befriends the leader of the wolves. She calls the leader of the wolves Amoroq. She also befriends the largest of the pups. She calls the smallest pup Kapugen, after her father, but for short, Kapu. Julie soon finds out it is time for the wolves to move on, but she decides she cannot follow them. She starts to get more food and starts to head back home. It takes her about a month to get back home. But when Julie gets home, her father is safe and MARRIED!!

Part II describes a violent non-consenting adult physical relationship between pre-pubescent Julie and her "arranged marriage" husband which would result in serious jail time for the perpetrator in our society. The author consideres the "act" the zenith of the book where Julie takes responsibility for herself and leaves. I think some people forget that young children are not miniature adults, and often lack the experience and background knowledge to understand the kind of behavior described in this book. Don't get me wrong. This is an excellent piece of literature. But PARENTS please...read Part II thorougly before deciding to give this book to a young child.

In a recent writing assignment, my son reviewed Julie of the Wolves. Here's what he had to say:
When I first started Julie of the Wolves, I had no idea what to expect. I was in for a big surprise. I've read two other books by Jean Craighead George, both quite different than this book in two ways: First, Sam (of My Side of the Mountain and its sequel The Far Side of the Mountain) chooses to leave the modern world and live in the wilderness, whereas Julie is running away from a marriage when she gets lost in the wilderness on the way to Point Hope, where her pen-pal lives. (It was news to me that Eskimos married at thirteen. I doubt anyone would even think of marrying that early these days.) Second, the protagonist of Julie of the Wolves is a girl. (Sam, of course, is a boy, although both characters are roughly the same age.) This book is realistic. Everything Miyax/Julie does to survive seems sensible and what I would do if I got lost in the wilderness. At the bookstore, don't pass by this book. Pick it up and read the back. It should spark your interest. (For more cool reads, check out the other books I've reviewed.)

This was an excellent book but not perfect.
Julie, an Eskimo girl was forced into marriage at the age of thirteen. She does not like her husband so she runs away. Eventually she finds herself lost on an island.
She attempts to communicate with the wolves living there failing but not giving up. I really enjoyed this book because it was about a girl that was trying to survive on her own. I felt as if I was part of the struggles she was gong through and the adventures! I would definitley recommend this book to anyone wanting a story of a persistent, amazing girl trying to become who she was meant to be.

Julie of the Wolves is a fantastic, exciting, adventurous book. A young Eskimo girl named Miyax (Julie) finds out that soon after her father dies, she has to get married to a young boy named Daniel, who she does not love. After

Miyax married Daniel, he miss- treats her, so she runs away and tries to find a ship to go live with her pen-pal. While Miyax wanders through the cold, blank tundra, of Alaska, she struggles to survive. She finds a wolf pack along the way who helps her find civilization.

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by Michaela, Summer, and Allison

Miyax the hunter, the wolf-girl; Julie, the 13 year old married Eskimo.

Julie's mother passed. Left with Kapugen, her father, and became the intelligent, observant, and interesting, Miyax. Her father went out on a seal hunt one day, only for bits of his boat to be found washed ashore and no return of him.

Miyax was sent to live with Aunt Martha, a distant and cold woman. Miyax was told that at the age of 13, she could leave her Aunt's house if she wed a boy named Daniel. SO, at the age of 13, Miyax did just that. However, when she arrived, Miyax realized that Daniel had a mental problem. Miyax accepted that, but one day something put her over the edge. She ran away, in hopes of leaving to stay with her pen-pal in San Francisco, California.

When Miyax runs away, she realizes she will need to find away to get food. She learns how to communicate with the wolves to get food, water, and family; all the necessities.

The author engages the reader by putting an intelligent young girl face to face with dangerous, even life threatening challenges which she learns to deal with. It gives the reader an emotional attachment too Miyax. A very good read.

This book was about a Eskomo girl named Miyax. She had a nice dad and a guy she liked too. After her friend left to go to war she was sent to live with her neice. She was to marrie her retarted son. She ran away to meet up with her letter pal in San Frenceso. She had to reli on the land and the animals so she would survive. She meet up with a wolf pack who ecepted her as one of them. Does she make it alive read and find out? I suggest this book to people who like adventures and wolves. I like this book because it makes you wants you to read more until you get to the next chapter.

Unhappy with her arranged marriage, Julie runs away to go live with a friend in San Fransico. During her journey through the Alaskan wilderness, she realizes how important nature is and how civilization is destroying it. Jean Craighead George gives insight into the Inuit culture and the importance of nature to this culture. She writes in favor of reserving culture and nature as if everyone is out to destroy it. It is true that cultures are less important to some; however some spend all their time and energy to preserve their cultures just as Julie (Miyax) does in the novel. George expands on the theory of "survival of the fittest." The question is who will survive: nature or society? In the novel, civilization is destroying nature for human survival. The hunters must kill for food and money; this is their way of survivng. In the Inuit culture George writes about, Julie survives by hunting and killing her own food. Julie contradicts herself because in the novel that is exactly what the "civilized" are doing. The only difference is that the "civilized" people don't choose and pick which animals they will kill and which they will allow to live. In the article, "The Ignoble Savage: American Images in the Mainstream Mind" Moore and MacCain state that "the prtagonist is in search of a way to escape from an Inuit culture that she feels is palpably threating to her"(28). This could be similar to the arranged marriage Julie had to particpate in. This is part of the Inuit culture, and therefor George should consider preserving it as part of the culture in the novel. Julie of the Wolves is a well written novel. Even as a "grown up" I truly enjoyed reading it. It is a moving story that will touch the heart of anyone.
George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. Illus.John Schoenherr. New York: Harper Trophy Publishers, 1972.
Moore, Opal and Donnarae MacCain. "The Ignoble Savage: Amerind Images in the Mainstream Mind." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 13.1 (1988): 26-30.

Growing up a halfbreed Yupik Eskimo, in rural Wisconsin, isn't exactly an idyllic setting amongst the French Canadian, Germanic & Scandinavian stock that is prevalent in rural Wisconsin.

My mother was Yupik from Tununak, Alaska, not far from Mekoyuk, where Miyax's father was from. My mother had drowned when I was 6 years old, so this story, really hit home with me, even though I had never been to Alaska. My father was an Army soldier & we lived in Ft. Knox, Ky, when dear mother passed on, buried & being one of 5 children, he now had to raise alone, he was discharged & we all packed up & moved to his home state. Wisconsin.

This book was required reading in 7th grade, & took to this book easily, yet, I never finished the book. Why, as it didn't hold my interest, my concentration, my lust for something tangible, or it could've been that I missed my mother so much that I just couldn't bare to finish it, whatever reasons, I just couldn't. I carried that guilt with me, for years.

Julie, aka Miyax, lost her father, I lost my mother, he was her connection to the old world, as was my mother, our connection to our Yupik identities (Not very valued in 1980s rural WI), as my mother, taught us Yupik, despite the fact that we lived in Germany & Ft Knox. She called us Yupik names, my oldest sister was Arranacirraq (very hard to pronounce) but it meant "My poor girl", my next sister was named Teq (ass, really) as she was always a mean girl, and as my mother said, "looks like your dad's mom!" (They didn't get along, my mom & grandmother) my next sister was named Paniq, which just means "daughter", & mother called me Gutuun, which meant "My Son", & my baby sisters name was called Maasuaq, to which I still do not know it's meaning. She'd also go to local Asian stores & buy dried fish, ramen noodles, whip up some dough for fry bread & we'd "feast" like Eskimos! My mother would either get a call from our Eskimo grandma or my aunt Elsie & that would be like a call from outer space!

All that changed Sept. 1977.

My last words to her were inquiring to where she was going as she is leaving the house to the car, & I am pleading with her to go with & she tells me I can't, she's going to go visit my Uncle Paul (he shot himself, in '75, after a tour in Vietnam, as I would find out later). The next thing I remember were MPs outside our house & Arranacirraq crying, at the top of the house stairs, her face in her hands, sobbing away & Teq, Paniq & Massuaq all crowding her wondering whats going on...

Our Kapu passed away...

Our Kapu was no more...

Our Kapu was gone...

Dad moved us to Wisconsin & I was trying to adjust to life, no more fresh bread, no more dried fish, no more ramen noodles...

I wrote to Eskimo grandma once in sixth grade & she sent me an Xmas card & that was one of the last communications I had with her, I was never much of a writer.

Me, I stayed in school, trying & never really fitting in. Oblivious to what was going on around me. Arranacirraq found out that Dad wasn't her real dad (hence the "my poor girl") & would be a constant runaway, getting locked up in mental institutes & breaking out & then getting sent up to Waupan...got into drugs, drinking & smoking. She ended up in halfway houses until she was old enough to get out. Teq, would try to become our mother, teaching us to cook, clean & what not, but she would get stuck in foster care as would Paniq & shortly after Massuaq. None of them graduated, Save Massuaq & I.

Once I graduated, I joined the Army, to be just like my father, had a command station of choice Germany (my birthplace,) Alaska, or Korea. I chose Germany. Oddly, why I never chose Alaska is beyond me.

Being in the Army, in particular the Infantry, is an exercise of futility if you are looking for intelligent conversations. I found myself paining for books to read, (mainly to pass time as when you are on guard duty or CQ duty) I'd go to the local book store & buy military books & read them, but it was Native American books that held my attention.

In Germany, I read Coldsmith's "The Changing Wind" & didn't read much after that, but it was Desert Storm that I had loads of free time that I began to read more & more. So much that I read JOTW again & I am bawling my eyes out when Julie hears of a man who brought back Eskimo values to a village that was losing them. It was there also, that I got a letter from my Eskimo grandma & Aunt Mary! Being in DS/DS I had amassed money that I didn't know what to do with, so with those letters in my hand, I said aloud, I'm going to Alaska! I had to!

I flew into Anchorage July of '91 & was mesmerized by the Chugach range in the back drop of the states largest municipality & thought that Cook Inlet wasn't as pristine & clear as I had imagined then thought of the tons of glacial run off & realized why. I had to fly into Bethel & then one more flight to Tununak, but, I had missed the connecting flight & was grounded in Bethel overnight, & not knowing a soul or not telling anyone I was coming, as I wanted to surprise Grandma! I had been put up in a hostel where I met a girl from Newtok that was my grandmothers grandaughter, my cousin! She was explaining to me all the Yupik names that my mom called us & what they meant & she then asked who my grandmother was & I told her & she said "we're related!" We I'll be damned!

The next day, I over slept & missed the morning flight & made my grandmother worried (she found out of course) & I finally arrived! Picked up by truck, we crossed the bridge & the smell of dried herring blowing off the coastal wind into town wafted through the air & hit home as the memory, long forgotten, of my mother buying dried fish at Asian stores off base,came rushing to me. I was HOME!

I made it to my Grams house & out came my aunty Mary & she helped me in where she introduced me to my gram, who was busy tending dried fish. She got up, put on her glasses, asking, "Is it really you?!" Over & over again. Hugging me, both of us crying, immense tears of joy...I found my Kapu!

You will enjoy Miyax' terrifying and trechorous journey in the Alaskan wilderness to survive.If your into survival or Human-animal bond books.
Amoroq the wolf is the leader of the wolf pack and kills Jello [another wolf] because he stole from Miyax.That was the best part because it's so descriptive and it feels like you're in the book.I couldn't stop reading it.
I would reccomend this book to anyone that will stick with the book because it starts out boring then goes into the best book ever!

This book is about a thirteen year old girl named Miyax Kapugen or Julie Edwards. This Inuit girl has to live in the cold Tundra of the Arctic Alaska with a pack of wolves. How did she get stuck there? Well she ran away to get away from her wretcged family and her extremely dull husband Daniel which she was forced to marry. This pack of wolves were like her adopted family as Amaroq, the alpha male,her father and Kapu, the leader of the pups,or his brother. Miyaxwas on her way to San Fransisco to see her penpal.This is a great book.

I remember reading this book in third grade and loving it, but I couldn't remember any of it, only the basic stuff. I didn't even remember the ending! Well, three years later I picked it up again, and it really "wowed" me. I could read better now then I could in third grade, and I appreciated the book more. It is one of my favorite books now. It is beautifully written and focuses on friendship and survival. This book is also very touching and also very sad. I have not yet read the sequel or the third book, but I highly reccomend Julie of the Wolves to animal lovers or people who just love a great book.

This book is about a eskimio girl named Julie/Miyax who needs to find out how to live in harsh weather conditions and no food. Thats because she ran away to see her pin-pal, Amy, and to run away from an engegement. By going on what her father said she tryed to comunicate with the wolves. Watching how they cominicate and trying it herself she was able to tell them what she needes, which waz food and a shelter. Later she comes home to her dad and his non-eskimo wife who doesnt live the eskimo ways.

This girl named Miyax (also Julie) finds herself running away from her problem . she is now in the tundra trying to survive. She is cold and starving, but then she sees wolves she tryes to communicate with the wolves so she can get food. she does. Then she has a flash back, when, where, why she is here. She remembers her pin-pal,Amy. she wants to find Amy so she trys to reach POuint Hope. when she finally gets there she doesnt want to leave. then she finds something amazing!