Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves)

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Summary: Julie must choose between the old world and the new.
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What would you do if you were lost on the tundra with a wolf pack as your only hope to survive? Would you go mad? Give up and die? Miyax Kapugen, an eskimo girl who has escaped from a disasterous marriage, has to find a way to stay alive until she can find a landmark. She has no food, only her knives, sleeping skin, pot, matches, and clothes. After building a hut on one of the many frost heaves of the monotonous tundra she turns to the wolf pack that is "many harpoon-shots away" for help.

Miyax names the wolves. The leader (alpha wolf) is Amaroq, the beta wolf is Nails, the mother of the pups is Silver. "The low man on the totem pole", Jello, is the hated wolf of the pack. He has to baby-sit the wolf pups, a job that Miyax soon takes over. The pups themselves are Kapu, Sister, Zit, Zat, and Zing. Miyax learns to speak the language of the wolves. She taps the adult wolves on the corner of their mouths when thay come home from the hunt,and on instinct, they regurgitate the food in their "belly-baskets." She is accepted by the wolves when she taps Amaroq under the chin as a "Hail to the chief."

Jean Craighead George crafts a surviva story that is so realistic that readers can feel Miyax's hunger and see the colors of her arctic world. Jean Craighead George wrote, in her very first paragraph, when describing the sun "It was a yellow disk in a lime-green sky." Later on on in the book she described Miyax's hunger "A dull pain seized her stomach."

Miyax uses her eskimo knowledge to determine what day it is. She follows the flight of different birds to discern where Fairbanks lies. She lives in harmony with the wolves, but when they leave for their winter den she is left behind on the tundra. When she begins a journey toward the coast and her people, a man in an airplane shoots the wolf leader of her pack, Amaroq, and Miyax is distraught. After grieving, Miyax continues her journey and meets two people who talk of the great leader Kapugen, who is Miyax's father! She rushes to rejoin him, only to find that he has forsaken or forgoten all of the old eskimo ways that he taught her. She is devastated when she finds out that it was he who murdered the magnificient Amaroq, all for his musk oxen industry. Miyax, christened "Julie" by the people of her father's village, realizes that "the hour of the wolf" is over. She sings her sad farewell to Amaroq: The seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone. The spirits of the animals are passing away. Amaroq, Amaroq, you are my adopted father. My feet dance because of you. My eyes see beaus of you. My mind thinks because of you. And it thinks, on this thundering night, that the hour of the wolf and the eskimo is over.

If Julie of the Wolves has a fault, my opinion is that Miyax is married at thirteen. This is a sadly realistic situation, nonetheless. I did not enjoy reading about it. Once, Miyax's husband tried to "mate her". It was horrible! That was why Miyax/Julie ran away. She repeated her father's advice to herself: "When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong."

Jean Craighead George has written many other books besides Julie of the Wolves, titles including My Side of the Mountain and The Thirteen Moons. She has also written two sequels to Julie of the Wolves (Julie and Julie's Wolf Pack) and they are, if possible, more wonderful than the first. Jean Craighead George was born in Washington, D.C. She was inspired to write Julie of the Wolves by a summer spent studying wolves at the Arctic Research Laboratory in Barrow. I think that this was what enabled her to describe wolves so well. My favorite descriptions of this kind are "brittle yellow jewels", (describing a wolves' eyes) and "Silver moved in a halo of light, for the sun sparkled n the guard hairs that grew over the dense underfur and she seemed to glow." (This was describing th gloriosly beautiful motherof the wolf pups. Jean Craighead George was rearedby naturalist parents who passed on their love of animals to her, and she in turn passed that love on to her children. She currently lives in Chappaqua, New York.

Julie of the Wolves is a book of choices. It is a very saddening read when Miyax/Julie must choose between the world of the old eskimos and te world of the new. Yet, there are small chunks of humor that provide happiness. The wolf pups in Miyax's care are always funny to read about. Kapu delights in her mitten, and all the wolves love to wrestle. Miyax herself makes up songs about almost everything, like about her peas that she picked : "Peas that go tink peas that go tot peas that will never grow outside my pot." Julie of the Wolves is a powerful survival story. It would satisfy those who hunger for books about wolves, people, the arctic, eskimos, tundra... So, I would suggest READING IT!

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Summary: Why?
Review: Back in 6th Grade I was forced to read this book for a school project. I was never the same. This book showed me that not all literature is good, and that some works are truly horrible. This is truly horrible. I can't understand how it could win any type of award, especially a Newberry. I am still confused as to the point of this book. Most of the time, it read like a boring textbook and what story there was was pitiful and weak. I could not feel any sympathy for the characters at all. I wish there was a rating lower than 1 star, because that's what this book deserves. I saw someone on Amazon selling it for a penny. It isn't even worth that.

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Summary: Why on earth did this win a Newbery?!
Review: I hated "Julie of the Wolves." By the time I finished, 15,000,000 questions were swimming in my head, one which was, "How on earth did this win the Newbery?" Although Part 1 was good, Part 2 was confusing, and Part 3 was the sorriest excuse for a Newbery award winner I have ever read.
I was expecting some grand tale which ended with the sentence, "And with that, Julie pulled up the covers of her new bed in San Francisco, closed her eyes, and went to sleep." Instead it was, "Julie pointed her boots toward Kapugen."
If you like books with weak plots and confusing sentences you must read four times to understand, then you'll love "Julie of the Wolves."

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Summary: Cold Year In the Tundra
Review: 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!

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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: Imagine a situation where wolves were your friends and family instead of people. And you learn to love your wolf pack. This is the situation in the adventurous book Julie of the Wolves, written by jean Craighead George. But one day changes everyones perspective.

It began when Julie's Aunt took her away from Kapugen, her father, to attend school and went to Barrow. Julie was thirteen and old enough to marry. Kapugen happened to meet Nusan, her mother-in-law, in that town. She had said that Julie had ran off and died. But Nusan didn't really know what had happened to Julie. Julie was gone for a very long time after all and most people thought that she died. But Julie was on the tundra with the gentle wolf pack and its kind leader, Amaroq, but Kapugen had killed him and Julie still had the painful memories of that day. But Kapugen always called her Miyax. He was the only person allowed to call her Miyax. Like most Eskimo-Julie has two names, English and Eskimo-Julie Edwards and Miyax Kapugen. But she wondered what would happen to her wolves.

After spending a long time with her pack, Julie picks up the wolf language. She howls and whimpers. And the wolves speak back. She knows what they're feeling by her own natural instinct. But not exactly what they're thinking. After a while, Julie decides to leave Kapu, her wolf and his pack, to go home and live with Kapugen. She is worried that her wolves will follow her and Kapugen finds then because he will shoot her wolves. "Kapugen is like all Eskimo hunters. He will say, 'The wolf gave himself to me'."-Julie of the Wolves.

Julie goes on an adventure to go and find her wolves. To try and make them understand to stay away from Kapugen or he will shoot them. She is very protective of her wolves because they saved her life. She wants them so badly to understand by her howls but they keep heading in her direction. Is Julie going to save her wolves before Kapugen finds them first? I would recommend this book for anyone who likes adventure and cliffhangers. It's a wonderful book to read if your mind likes to question and leaves you stranded.

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Summary: Julie's Wolves
Review: Julie of the Wolves is the fascinating story of 13-year-old Miyax (Julie) who escapes an abusive marriage after her father dies in a boating accident and leaves her with an adoptive family. She travels across Alaska in an attempt to reach San Francisco, where she can stay with her pen pal, Amy, for a while. But in the dangerous conditions of the Alaskan tundra, she is forced to depend on a pack of wolves for shelter, food, and any chance of survival. To do this, she must learn to speak their language and get them to trust her. After studying their movements and ways of communicating, she is accepted by the wolves and the leader of the pack seems to be taking care of her. Through this experience, she learns much about herself and who she wants to be. But as she nears the end of her journey, she is forced to choose between the old Eskimo ways or the new ways. Any animal lover will love this book!

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Summary: Julie of The Wolves The Sixth Grade Book Review
Review: Mayax was a girl who was taken to live in a city named Barrow (Alaska) to marry a man named Daniel. She wasn't happy; the jealousy of Daniel was strong. Being unhappy Mayax,or Julie as Amy, her penpal is San Francisco called her,left to live with Amy. It seemed now the hatred that she had for Daniel made her decide to leave Barrow. She got lost. She soon found herself living or trying to survive with a pack of wolves. She was now living like an Eskimo living with wolves. The leader,Armoroq,was trying to accept Julie as one of the wolves of the pack. She was shown how to live like an Eskimo by her father Kapugen, who she believed was dead. Would she survive or not? Would Armoroq accept her as one of the wolves?

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Summary: Journey Though Alaska
Review: This book was great. It's about a young 13-year-old Eskimo girl, called Miyax, who is married to a boy called Daniel and lives with his parents. Miyax then runs away from Daniel and his family, because of the way she was treated. She plans to work her way to San Francisco, where she would live with her pen pal, but she then finds herself lost in a large tundra and depends on wolves to live. By observing a pack she found how to communicate with the wolves and...
One of my reasons why I liked this book is, it's so descriptive. You can easily picture the characters and their surroundings just by reading a few sentences. Such as this quote, "Her face was pearl-round and her nose was flat. Her black eyes, which slanted gracefully, were moist and sparkling."
Another reason why I like this book is, it gives me an idea of how the environment of Alaska is, and how the old, traditional culture of the Eskimos was like. I also like how the book described the relationship between people, and the nature around them, and how they learned how to survive in the wilderness just by observing animals- how to hunt, where to find food, and how to defend yourself against another predator. This quote describes what I mean, "Next she noted that the grasses grew in different spota than the mosses, and the more she studied, the more the face of the tundra emerged; a face that could tell her which way was north, if she had listened more carefully to Kapugen."
My most favorite part of this book was when Miyax begins playing with the puppies of the pack, Zing, Zit, Sister, and Kapu. This reminds me of how enjoyable life can be with friends and family.

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Summary: Julie of the Wolves- A real winner!!!!!!
Review: Wow! What a captivating book Julie of the Wolves was! I had my doubts at first though. It seemed as though in the first 50 pages of the book nothing happened. It almost got so boring I was ready to throw it down(that's why I gave it 4 stars), but I'm so glad I didn't! Jean George constructed a story that keeps your attention and displays impotant values and morals. It gives you a sense of understanding between the human qualties and animals. The read also gives you the inspiration of a young girl having the will to survive in the Arctic tundra. These morals remind you of the basic human structure of pesonality and spirit. If you are looking for a book to lift you off your feet away from the daily grind, this is a winner!!!!!