Julie of the Wolves
About this book
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?
Subjects
- accelerated reader
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- age:max:12
- age:min:8
- award:newbery_award
- children's fiction
- children's stories, english
- english language
- eskimo children
- eskimos
- eskimos, fiction
- esquimales
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- grade:max:7
- grade:min:3
- habiletés de survie
- indians of north america, fiction
- inuit
- inuits
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile literature
- large type books
- lexile:700
- lexile_range:701-800
- lobos
- loup
- newbery award winner
- newbery medal
- newbery medal books
- novela juvenil
- readers (secondary)
- reading comprehension
- roman pour la jeunesse
- romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- runaway children
- spanish language materials
- supervivencia
- supervivencia fuera de la civilización
- survival
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
- survival, fiction
- survival in literature
- survival skills
- teenage girls
- textbooks for foreign speakers
- translations into spanish
- wilderness survival
- wolves
- wolves, fiction