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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Not Julie! The book Julie is the sequel to the Newberry Award winning Julie of the Wolves. Julie is pulished by Harper Collins Publishers in 1994 and is written by Jean Craighead George. Julie's life is full of conflicts but being afraid of the nearby wolf pack isn't one of them. The first conflict in Julie's life is with her father. This problem is mainly fueled by the fact that he killed the leader of the nearby wolf pack which once saved her life. Another main fuel is her father's change in beliefs since she was younger. She knows he killed the leader because the man who did it was in one of her father's friend's helicopter, with his goggles and his gun. After a while he realizes that his kiling the leader is bothering her and tells her that he did it to protect the musk oxen which is the Eskimo village's industry. This is such a conflict because in spite of this she loves him. Julie's second conflict is with her stepmother. She dislikes her because she is not an Eskimo and she has many different views. Ellen seems to have contributed in changing Julie's father's beliefs. Julie feels this outsider is a setback to the village way of life. Julie refuses to speak English to Ellen because of this conflict. When Ellen helps Julie to deliver a baby musk ox without killing the mother as Julie would have, this conflict is partiallly resolved. A third conflict is her love for the wolves that saved her life. Although she loves them she wants them to stay away because if they do not they will be in danger of her father killing. She tries to keep the wolves away by not answering their howls and wishing that they will stay away. Instead of spending time with the wolves she busies herself be feeding the musk oxen, sulking, and exercising her father's sled dogs. She hopes that the wolves are staying safely away. Unfortunately they kill one of the musk oxen. He father then gives her a set time limit by which she has to get rid of the wolves. She is unsure that she can do this. I would wholeheartedly recommend reading this book. Any readers who like nature, adventure, and mystery would especially love this book. I challenge everyone to get this book and check out how Julie resolves all her conflicts.

This is a great book. But I liked the last one the best. I think Jean Craighead George, and Wendell Minor, are truly fantastic! If you haven't read this, and the other two books, you haven't experienced a true, good book. Jean captures the true wolf, the wolf society, and other very interesting facts of a wolf's life. Like, I never knew that wolves have leaders, or Alpha's. I never knew that if a "baby-sitter" wolf, narrowed their eyes, showed their teeth, and lifted their ears straight, a wolf pup would sit down. I never knew that if a hungry pup nudged a adult wolf that has just eaten on the muzzle, the adult wolf will regurgatate the food, or, throw up the half digested meat. I never knew wolves tell each other who's the boss by mouthing a wolf's nose. I never knew if a wolf is larger or taller than other wolf, than it has a good chance for being an alpha or beta. Untill I read Jean Craighead George's book, "Julie of the Wolves", "Julie", and "Julie's Wolf Pack".

When I was a kid, my favourite sorts of books were adventure stories with animals. I read a lot of Walter Farley, Jack London, Farley Mowat, and Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves was one of my favourite books. Decades later, I still like to dip into my childhood favourites.

Last week, I decided to read Julie. Although Julie of the Wolves is edgier, with its themes of childhood marriage, attempted rape, loss and deprivation, Julie is an excellent follow-up. She overcomes feelings of betrayal toward her father and racist prejudices toward her stepmother. She also gets together with her beloved wolves once again.

The simplistic writing style makes Julie a very quick read. It is also very educational, with its conservationalist theme matter, Innu vocabulary, and examinations of life in the far north. It's a book people of all ages can learn from and enjoy.

"Julie" is a book about a young woman called Julie, who returns home from her life on the Tundra, with a pack of wolves as her family. Her father Kapugen has married an American woman named Ellen, who is pregnant. Julie arrives home to normal family life. She feels that she could accept the family life, if she hadn't known that her father had killed her wolf father. Julie can speak beautiful English, but she will not talk to Ellen, until she is sure she can accept Ellen into her life. Julie starts talking to Ellen, when they are in an ice shelter helping a Musk Oxen, give birth to her calf. Julie realises that Ellen is no longer an intruder in her family, and welcomes her.

Julie goes through many difficult situations in this story, like when she comes face to face with a wild bear. I enjoyed this book very much because, you have the feeling you were part of this book, and also the story. I thought Jean Craighead George made things very descriptive, like the ice on the Tundra, the soft fuzzy fur of the wolf pup, and the scurrying ground squirrels. This book shows the power between a father and his daughter, they love each other so much that they can read each others minds'.

This novel is for people who like a book with happiness, a bit of sadness, and the smallest bit of romance. It is also a book that has a lot of adventure.

Julie is the sequel to Julie Of The Wolves, and you have to read the first book before you read this one.
In this book Julie has returned to her father and finds out that he has remarried a women named Ellen. At first Julie does not like Ellen because she is from Minnesota, but eventually comes to like her. She also finds out that her father has changed. He now has an airplane and owns a herd of musk oxen.
Shortly after Julie's return she hears her wolves howling for her. Afraid that her wolves will kill her father's musk oxen, Julie goes out and, after two weeks she finally gets her wolves to stay away, at least for awhile.
Also in this book a boy named Peter falls in love with Julie. At first she will not love him back, but eventually admits that she does loves him. It is a pretty weak love story but the rest of the book is awesome.
If you did not really like the end of Julie Of The Wolves (I didn't) I would definitely still read Julie, it has a much happier ending.
I would recommend this book for kids ages 11 and up, mostly because of the love story. It is a very good book for kids who love adventure, nature, Eskimo life, and wolves(although I'll warn you that there is not near as much about the wolves in this book as there is in Julie Of The Wolves).
And don't forget that there is a third book in the series called Julie's Wolf Pack. I haven't read it yet, but maybe I'll write a review on it once I've read it.

Eliza, age 12

At thirteen, Julie Edwards - or Miyax Kapugen - was married according to the agreement between her parents and those of her bridegroom. Miserably unhappy in her temperamental husband's home, Julie fled. She and a wolf pack befriended each other, out in the wilds of her native Alaska, and because of the wolves Julie has survived to find her way home. Back to her widowed father, who (to her considerable surprise) has missed her and looked for her. And then, when told falsely of her death, has mourned for the daughter he loved and now knows he should not have pushed into that early marriage.

In Julie's absence Kapugen has married again, and his new wife is a schoolteacher from Minnesota. Ellen has convinced Kapugen to give up, for the most part, his life as an Eskimo hunter. Although they still live in the village where they met, Kapugen flies an airplane and cares for a herd of domesticated musk oxen while Ellen continues with her teaching job. Julie's homecoming is marred not only by her doubts about her father's choice of a fair-skinned, red-haired outsider as his new wife, but also - far more - by her terror of Kapugen's insistence that if and when the wolf pack comes to hunt his musk oxen, he must kill them. Julie knows that Kapugen means it, because he killed one of "her" wolves before. She can't go off to high school in Fairbanks, not even when she falls in love with a young Eskimo man who will be going to the university there. She has to stay in the village until she figures out how to save her wolves from Kapugen, whom she loves despite his growing departure from the ways he taught her to follow.

Coming of age novels with girl protagonists are rare enough, if one doesn't count (and I certainly do not!) those books whose whole point is how that girl learns to accept the limits of traditional femininity as the cost of mature happiness. Books like this one, about a girl who comes of age by meeting physical and intellectual challenges thrown at her by Nature itself - and by the clash of cultures, too - are rarer still. Marvelous! Simply marvelous!

This book was very alike to the first but also very different. It talked about the ways Julie's father had adapted to a new way of life. But Julie had a hard time excepting the fact that her father was not as connected with nature as she. Her love of the Artic tundra was very strong and made it hard for her to except new ways. But I can't reveal much more! Read the 1st, 2nd & 3rd books in the Julie trilogy!

Julie is about a girl who lives with her dad. She learns many new things. One is when she finds out something the wolves do. I really love this book and I hope you do too.That was why I loved the book so much.

Hi! I've read Julie of the Wolves and Julie and I think they are the best books EVER! I've only read three of George's books: My Side of the Mountain(HIGHLY recomended), Julie of the Wolves(Excellent!), and Julie(Probably the best of all three!), but they are all cool, exciting and suberb. Now about Julie: A great book, very descriptive, and extremly captivartion. I'm ten years old. I took me three days to read, and I absolutley ADORED it! Miyax Kapugen Julie Edwards, a young eskimo girl(14) who has lived on the arctic tundra with her adoptive wolf pack for almost a year, must now return to her father. Her father has changed very mush from when she knew him: He had adopted the ways of the 49 southern states, had started using technology, and had married a gussak(American) wife. Julie also meets Peter, and Siberian eskimo who loves her. She thinks of school before him, but decides to marry him when she gets grown up. Julies wolf pack starts killing her fathr's oxen(there are no caribou to hunt) and her father attemps to kill them. CCan Julie save her wolf pack? Will her father ever re-accept the wolves? Read this AWSOME booi to find out!

A novel of how Julie, a young Eskimo woman, wishes to live by the old Eskimo ways, but the world is changing. What Julie hated the most, was, the Minnesota law wolf to kill live stock, is a wolf to be killed "She must try to lead her wolfs to safety...or her family back to the old ways