Helpful Score: 3
This is one of my all time favorite books. As a young teen, I must have read it 20 times. Great adventure in a foreign (to most people) land, and although not a happy ending, a wonderful book nonetheless.
Helpful Score: 2
There are lots of good books out there for kids, but few great ones. I consider a book great, if it has a fascinating premise, an interesting plot, well-drawn characters, but also a strong protagonist with a difficult problem for my children to identify with. A book is outstanding if it can also give them a look into a different culture and way of life. Julie of the Wolves, in my opinion, is outstanding children's literature.
Helpful Score: 2
Good, a little sad, teaches you how to know your friends from your enemies.
Helpful Score: 2
Newberry-winning book for 4th grade and older. A native girl runs away and gets lost in the ALaskan wilderness. A pack of Artic wolves accepts her and helps her.
Helpful Score: 2
Jean George has captured the subtle nuances of Eskimo life, animal habits, the pain of growing up, and combines these elements into a thrilling adventure which is, at the same time, a poignant love story."
---School Library Journal
---School Library Journal
Helpful Score: 1
This book is a great read in and out of the classroom. It helped me come up with a whole unit plan. I would recommend it to anyone.
Great story!!! I loved it!
To her small Eskimo village, she is know 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, and she grows to love them as though they were her family. With their help, and drawing on her father's teachings, Miyax struggles day by day to survive. But the time comes when she must leave the wilderness and choose between the old ways and the new. Which will she choose? For she is Miyax of the Eskimos, but Julie of the Wolves.
To her small Eskimo village, she is know 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, and she grows to love them as though they were her family. With their help, and drawing on her father's teachings, Miyax struggles day by day to survive. But the time comes when she must leave the wilderness and choose between the old ways and the new. Which will she choose? For she is Miyax of the Eskimos, but Julie of the Wolves.
I love this story of survival and nature! Young woman heroine.
Good young adult/teen book. Good reading material!
Winner of the Newberry Medal.
Interesting book. It is usually recommended for young adults, but I consider it an adult book because of some themes/content.
Interesting book. It is usually recommended for young adults, but I consider it an adult book because of some themes/content.
It's a classic you have to read it at least once. Not a bad book, and it's an easy read, and easy to understand
This is a wonderful tale that continues through several books. I have yet to offer this to a young person that they would not drink up each book.
This book is a must read!
Great Newbery Medal Winner.
I love this book. It will always be part of my favorites!
Alone and lost - on the North Slope of Alaska.
newberry medal book
Paraphrased from the back: Lost in the Alaskan wilderness, Miyax is slowly accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves. With their help, she struggles to survive. In the process, she is forced to rethink her past, and to define for herself the traditional riches of Eskimo life.
Very good book.
We've had this book for a long time. The pages are intact and the book is readable, but the book has some moderate signs of age.
