Julie of the Wolves

By Jean Craighead George

Subjects: grade:min:3, Juvenile literature, Survival skills, award:Newbery_award, Wolves, Translations into Spanish, Indians of north america, fiction, Ficción juvenil, Newbery Medal, Runaway children, Eskimos, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Newbery Award Winner, Inuits, Eskimo children, Large type books, Lobos, Wolves, fiction, Eskimos, age:min:8, Teenage girls, Wilderness survival, Inuit, Roman pour la jeunesse, Children's stories, English, Esquimales, English language, Survival, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Newbery Medal books, Supervivencia, Fiction, Spanish language materials, Reading comprehension, Children's fiction, Survival in literature, age:max:12, grade:max:7, Habiletés de survie, Accelerated Reader, lexile:700, Textbooks for foreign speakers, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Juvenile fiction, Novela juvenil, Supervivencia fuera de la civilización, Survival, fiction, Loup, Readers (Secondary), lexile_range:701-800

Description: Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and unhappily married, Miyax runs away from her husband's parents' home, hoping to reach San Francisco and her pen pal. But she becomes lost in the vast Alaskan tundra, with no food, no shelter, and no idea which is the way to safety. Now, more than ever, she must look hard at who she really is. Is she Miyax, Eskimo girl of the old ways? Or is she Julie (her "gussak"-white people-name), the modernized teenager who must mock the traditional customs? And when a pack of wolves begins to accept her into their community, Miyax must learn to think like a wolf as well. If she trusts her Eskimo instincts, will she stand a chance of surviving?