Julie of the Wolves
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180 pages · Released Jun 6, 1997 · Harper Collins
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Julie of the Wolves is a classic survival story centered on a 13-year-old girl navigating wilderness and cultural identity. The book emphasizes resilience, respect for nature, and self-discovery through challenging but not graphic circumstances. While there are predator-prey scenes and difficult moments of hunger and exposure, the tone remains literary and introspective rather than sensationalized. The arranged marriage plotline that motivates her flight is presented matter-of-factly without detail, appropriate for the age group.
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Lost on the Tundra To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her. Slowly she is accepted by a pack... Lost on the Tundra To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, Mid she grows to love them as though they were family. With their help, and drawing on her father's teachings, Miyax struggles day by clay to survive. But the time comes when she must leave the wilderness and choose between the old ways an(] the new. Which will she choose? For she is Miyax of the Eskimos--but Julie of the Wolves. Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey acoss the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses the tundra. She finds herself caught between the traditional Eskimo ways and the modern ways of the whites. Miyax, or Julie as her pen pal Amy calls her, sets out alone to visit Amy in San Francisco, a world far away from Eskimo culture and the frozen land of Alaska. During her long and arduous journey, Miyax comes to appreciate the value of her Eskimo heritage, learns about herself, and wins the friednship of a pack of wolves. After learning the language of the wolves and slowly earning their trust, Julie becomes a member of the pack. Since its first publication, Julie of The Wolves,winner of thr 1973 Newbery Medal, has found its way into the hearts of millions of readers.
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- Juvenile Fiction
- Young Adult
- Adventure
- Eskimos
- Wolves
- Newbery Medal
- Survival skills
- Fiction
- Translations into Spanish
- Lobos
- Children's stories, English
- Ficción juvenil
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ISBN 9780064400589 · Harper Collins