Julie of the Wolves Low Price

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Summary: a story full of love and dicovery
Review: Jean Craighead George writes a beautiful story in the respect of nature and how to live with only a few provisions. Anyone would enjoy this novel full of adventure and discovery.

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Summary: Ingenious and provocative.
Review: In this wonderful book about a young girl who is lost on the Alaskan tundra, Jean Craighead George reveals a whole new side of the wolf when the young woman is forced to turn to them for help. The reader discovers a caring, nurturing and noble wolf, instead of the wolf that most people have come to know. I strongly reccomend this book to anybody who is looking for a good book to read

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Summary: Moving allegory of the female adolescent experience.
Review: Psychologist Mary Pipher has written about the experiences and difficulties of real-life adolescent girls coming of age in America in her book Reviving Ophelia. Julie of the Wolves takes on many of Mary Pipher's themes and sets them in the Alaskan wilderness. In the course of the novel, Julie experiences both increasing mastery of her world and the losses and limitations American girls face as they make the transition to the constricted role of adult women. (Compare, for example, Julie's resignation at the end of the novel with the new found confidence and competence of the male hero in the superficially similar coming-of-age novel Dogsong, by Gary Paulson. Contrasting the final attitudes of Dogsong's protagonist with those of Julie of the Wolves' protagonist reveals a great deal about the different conclusions about themselves and the world American boys and girls draw from the adolescent experience.) Julie of the Wolves is valuable in that the author does not pull her punches in describing the losses Julie faces in her transition to adulthood. The subsequent book, entitled simply "Julie", continues the story of Julie and her wolfpack, but without the emotional impact of the original volume. However, it too is valuable in its lessons because it shows Julie making a vibrant and interesting life for herself within the limitations of her society

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Summary: Excellent book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is one of my favorite books! When Miax runs away from Daniel's house, and is all alone on the Alaska Tundra, she meets a pack of wolves. They take her into their pack, and feed her. Amarouq, the wolf packs beloved leader, is killed by hunters, his son Kapu is the leader of the pack. How will Miax survive? Will she ever find her father? And Who killed Amouroq? Find out in Julie OF THe Wolves. It is a wonderful story

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Summary: My 11 yr old son loved this book, what more can I say!
Review: Jean Craighead George writes an excellent story about a young Eskimo girl who makes her way through the wilderness of Alaska. The book is believable and inspiring and leaves you wanting more... which of course you can read in the sequel "Julie"

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Summary: It written great, but not a good plot for kids
Review: This is the story of Miyax, an Eskimo girl who is known to her pen pal in San Francisco as Julie. Julie leaves her home to go visit her pen pal because her father has gone, and she is married to a boy that does not treat her well. On the way, Julie gets lost and has to depend on a pack of wolves to survive. Using her father's words on how to befriend wolves, Julie, becomes one of the pack as she tries to find her way to San Francisco. There are some sad parts to this book, but I really love the great descriptions of the land and the wolves. Definitely a book that will warm your heart.

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Summary: The Struggle for Survival on the Tundra
Review: 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?


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Summary: All-time Favorite
Review: I read this book about 20 years ago when I chose it from the school reading list. For once I was eager to write the book report. It transported me. I can still picture the setting and remember Julie's connection with the wolves. The story was at times sobering and heartbreaking but that's what made it so real. Good stories reflect life--maybe not so much these days but in general. This one is going into MY shopping cart.

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Summary: LSMS student
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.