Julie of The Wolves

by Jean Craighead George

Book Overview

When Julie runs away from her small Eskimo village and finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, she gets help from a pack of Arctic wolves, and grows to love them as family. How will she choose between the wolves and her human family?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736228195
• ISBN13: 9780736228190
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: National Geographic School Pub
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Review by an 11yr. old

Julie left her life of mistreatment to go to San Fransisco, where her pen pal lives. In the beginning of her journey, Miyax becomes lost in the Arctic tundra until the North Star appears. Her courage and knowledge helped her survive. Jule also remembers her father teaching her how to survive living off the land. throughout her journey in the tundra miyax was kept company through animal companions. It is a story of finding oneself and companionship. Julie of the wolves has sad parts throughout the story. In total it was a great book.

A realistic, interesting book. You must read it!

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George is a really interesting and exciting book. The book is about a young girl named Miyax, or Julie to her friend in San Francisco. When Miyax's Eskimo village is no longer safe for her, she runs away and finds herself lost in the Alaskan Wilderness. She is afraid that she will die. After a few days, some Arctic wolves accept Miyax into their pack. Day after day, she struggles to live, but she never gives up. She tries and tries to find food and keep herself alive. The time comes when she must leave the wilderness. She has the choice between her Eskimo village or something new. Which one will she pick? You will never know if you do not get the book. Julie of the Wolves is a good book because the author uses an advanced vocabulary and writing style. Some of the words are a little tricky, but I still understood by the context of the sentence. Julie of the Wolves is mostly interesting at the end of the story. However, the beginning is hard to understand. As the plot develops, the story is more fascinating. Julie of the Wolves is a great book, and if I were a judge, I would give the book five stars. I would recommend it for girls of the age of seven through 10 1/2. I think Julie of the Wolves is an amazing book.

Julie of the Wolves

Julie, an Inuit Eskimo from Alaska, is born with the name Miyax. Because her mother dies when Miyax is barely four years old, Miyax's father, Kapugen, brings her up in the traditional Eskimo ways and teaches her a life of co-existence with the natural world. When Miyax is nine years old, her Aunt takes her away from her father because Julie is suppose to go to school. There she is around Americanized Eskimos, who call her Julie, and she starts to believe that she has lived a strange life with her father in the Alaskan wilderness. At thirteen, Julie finds herself in a bad situation and attempts to run away to San Francisco where her pen pal lives. Even though Julie is running away from her Eskimo upbringing, she winds up depending on the ways of her people. Out in the wilderness, she learns a lot about who she is. This book is about discovery and acceptance as Julie defines herself through her own culture and becomes Miyax again. Jean Craighead George interprets a particular culture, Inuit Eskimo, and defines it throughout the story. Julie, as a young girl, learns the importance of her culture and the process of identifying herself within it. However, Julie, as an adolescent, rebels against her culture because it has become out-of-date and is considered old fashion to live as the traditional Eskimo's once did. Julie learns from the American Eskimo kids about the modern world and about a life that is much different than what she is used to. Julie also has a pen pal who lives in San Francisco who has been sending Julie pictures of her home and telling her about strange and beautiful things that Julie wants to see. She begins to believe that the way she was brought up was, indeed, very strange and therefore not the way that she wants to live anymore. However, on her quest to live in San Francisco, Julie finds herself lost and she has nothing but herself and the wilderness to keep her alive. Drawing on her Inupiat Eskimo upbringing and believing in the Eskimo ways of intelligence, fearlessness, and love, Julie learns to see her people's ways as the way she wants to live. Julie becomes Miyax again, and talks to the wolves, as her father taught her, and gains their trust so that they help her to survive. Julie realizes that she doesn't want to live in San Francisco with all their modern ways and searches to find a traditional Eskimo settlement. Miyax discovers that her father is alive and that he was the man in the helicopter who killed Amaroq, the dominant wolf, for sport. At first when Miyax came across the Eskimo settlement, that her father is living at, she is excited to go back to her heritage. However, she discovers that he is living with a Gussak, an American Eskimo, and that he is no longer living the life of a traditional Eskimo but has become Americanized, and she learns the truth about the man who killed Amaroq. Miyax feels betrayed and leaves her father's home, only to realize that

Will the wolves help Miyax?

Julie of the Wolves was a great book. I liked it alot. It is one of my favorite books. It was about a girl named Miyax who was lost in the Alaskan Tundra. She is depending on the wolves whether she survives or not. She only packed a weeks worth of food and was planning on going to Point Hope. Then she got lost in the Tundra. She watched the wolves for several days to find out how to ask for food. She made friends with a young wolf who she named Kapu. Kapu helped her get food. I recommend this book to everyone.

Julie of the Wolves

A heart filled book that teaches you how important it is to belive in your self and to not give up.Jean George has made a masterpiece that shall not soon be forgoten by its readers.

The Best Book Around

Could you do it? Could you survive in the frozen waste of the Arctic tundra? That is exactly what Miyax must do after escaping a terrible marriage and running away into nowhere. To her Acrtic village she is Miyax, to her Californian friend, she is Julie. After building a hut on a frost heave, she has no food, only matches, her knife, and a pack of wolves to guide her. After awhile, the wolves lead her to a point near her old village. Now she must make a decision, she can rejoin her village OR stay with the wolves. What should she do, for she is Miyax of the eskimos, but Julie of the wolves.