![]() I love how this book has such a unique and rich setting- Inuit Alaskan culture is amazing in and of itself, but a wolf pack with its hierarchy and modes of communication is just fascinating. To escape the aunt, after her father disappears, Julie becomes a child bride of her father’s friend’s son, but when that sours, she sets out to find her pen-pal Amy in San Francisco, but ends up stranded in the eternal summer day of the Alaskan tundra, near a wolf pack, starving to death, needing to become a member of the pack to survive. It follows the life of an Inuit (Eskimo) girl named Miyax (Julie is her English name) after the death of her mother, raised by her hunter father before an aunt forces her to leave the desolate hunting camps to live with her in a city and attend school. ![]() Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George is the 52nd Newbery. ![]()
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