Julie of the Wolves

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Summary: Worth reading again
Review: My son and I read this book together and loved it. He loves books about people in the wolderness and wild animals as well. The inner conflicts of culture and acceptance was a plus. We, my son and I would recommend this book to anyone who loves stories about wolves and personal identity struggles. From Mom and fifth grade son!

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Summary: Great Indian Survival Story
Review: This is an excellent survival story of a native girl, and it is refreshing that it doesn't have to involve white people like most indian books do. If you like this you should also read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'dell and The Sacrifice by Diane Matcheck. All three are great Indian girl survival stories!

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Summary: This Newbery book is the best survival fiction book ever!
Review: "Her hands trembled and her heartbeat quickened, for she was frightened..." Miyax, her given name, or Julie, her Eskimo name she received at seal camp, is lost in the middle of the Artic with no food left, and the North Star not visible. She is trying to get to San Francisco to live with her pen pal, Amy who writes at the end of every letter, "P.S. When are you coming to live with us in San Francisco?" Miyax is on her way to San Francisco because she ran away from her new home and husband Daniel. But why did she run away? Now Miyax is in the middle of nowhere with a pack of wolves. She is trying to learn their language and communicate with them in hopes that they will treat her as one of their own and give her food. Amaroq, the leader of the pack, is ignoring her right now, but Julie does not want to be too noticable and scare them away. Will it be too late by the time Amaroq and his pack see Miyax and give her food? Will she ever even make it to San Francisco or will she go back to Daniel? I thought that Julie of the Wolves was a great book. It had a good plot and I couldn't put it down!

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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: I thought that the book "Julie of the Wolves" was great. My favorite part was when Julie met up with her father. I also liked how Julie learns how to survive on her own in the wild. I'm glad that this book was a choice because I would never have chosen to read it on my own.

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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: Julie of the Wolves is a great book. it is a story about a girl named Julie who ran away at the age of 13 from her husband to fend for her self in the Alaskin wilderness. At times it is sad,happy,joyful,suspensful,and frighting. I thought this book was great if i had to i would read it for the secound time.

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Summary: ICS book review
Review: This book was excellent!It was about a 13yr. old girl who runs away to find freedom.What she finds is herself lost in the wilderness with a pack of wolves. It is now up to you to find out the rest about her past and her future.

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Summary: ICS Book Review
Review: I thought this book was fantastic!It was a book about Julie's everyday life in Alaska and how she hated being married.She than ran away hoping for a better life.Julie found what she thought to be her new family, a wolf pack.She observed them often and became one of them,until they moved on. Amaroq(leader of pack) was shot and his son, Kapu,was injured. Miyax(Julie) took care of him until he recovered. He did and went to lead his pack.Miyax moved on and went to find her father, and to her suprise he had remarried.They sat and talked for a while and when he lft the room, Miyax left and decided to go live with her penpal in SanFrancisco.

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Summary: Wolves and Choices
Review: When Julie ran away onto the Alaskan tundra, she never knew it would be so far and so hard to get to San Francisco where her pen pal Amy lives. When Julie, tierd and out of food, sees a pack of wolves she asks them if she can join the pack. A tale of a girl who lives with the wolves turns into a tale of change and choices, when Julie must decide whether to choose her father and his new American wife, or the wolves.

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Summary: ICS BOOK REVIEW
Review: Julie of the Wolves was an ok book.I would read it again if ihad to.It was very different and i like books that are different.Iwould encourage u to read this book.

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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: 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 she has no other choice but to live as the people of the Eskimo Settlement do. I believe that Jean Craighead George does a fantastic job of portraying a young girl who is trying to find herself and in doing so, Julie explores her culture and is able to define herself within it. Julie figures out what she really wants and why because of this. In the beginning of the book, Julie is running away from her upbringing and running toward a modern new world. Julie chooses, in the end, to embrace her traditional upbringing and finds peace within herself and an acceptance of herself that she so needs. An acceptance that is so strong that even the thought of living in a village that desecrates many of the thinks Inuit Eskimos believe in, she is still strong enough to know who she is inside and decides to live with her father. Living as an Americanized Eskimo cannot brake down her beliefs or take away her true heritage, which she has gained strength from and a sense of herself.