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Julie of the Wolves (1972)

by Jean Craighead George

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Series: Julie of the Wolves (1)

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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
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    Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Paige22)
    Paige22: Another great book about survival. A young teenager in the wilderness similar to Julie of the Wolves.
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    The Friend of the Singing One by Elizabeth C. Foster (bookel)
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    A Dog Named Wolf by Erik Munsterhjelm (bookel)
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    The Wolf King by Joseph Wharton Lippincott (bookel)
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    Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (Curran2)
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I’ll need to read this one again. I tend to fall asleep during audiobooks and then I miss details.
  krisannebaker22 | Dec 26, 2024 |
It was a book which I had thought I would enjoy more. I found it to be sad overall. ( )
  tinabuchanan | Nov 13, 2024 |
1973 Newbery Medal Winner

The wolves were not really enough to hook me on this one--I became more interested as Miyax's back story was explained in the second part. However, in my immaturity I did enjoy sharing the gory details with Hubby: Miyax gets peed on(?) when she joins the wolf pack, eats a wolf's regurgitated stomach contents, tries to suckle from a wolf's teat, eats crane fly larvae, chows down the entrails of some owlets and the liver of a caribou (the candy of the Arctic, yum yum!), and collects Caribou poo for fire. Awesome.

I felt bad for what happened to Amaroq and for the state of the Eskimo culture in general. I got annoyed, though, that Miyax felt she couldn't go to San Francisco because she came to associate all white civilization with people who kill helpless animals for fun. I guess I took it a little personally--the first time I killed an ant as a child, I felt so bad that I had a funeral for it, so I thought that the message in this book was a little over-the-top and anti-European. I can see why she would have come to that feeling, though. I was pretty glad that she got over it enough to go and join her father again. ( )
  word.owl | Nov 12, 2024 |
Independent Reading Level: Grades 6-8
Awards: Newbery Medal
  aspears | Nov 3, 2024 |
#1286 in our old book database. Rated: Good.
Adele rated: Indifferent. ( )
  villemezbrown | Oct 31, 2024 |
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With all due respect for Jean Craighead George, I humbly would not recommend the book to be put on school shelves. I know it is hard work to write books, but when misinformation about the Arctic are numerous, one must say something about the book.
 

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George, Jean CraigheadAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Minor, WendellCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Moore, ChristinaNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schoenherr, JohnIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

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