Julie of the Wolves: Treasury (Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack) [Hardcover]

Jean Craighead George (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1972

To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When her life in the village becomes dangerous, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness. Without food and time running out, Miyax tries to survive by copying the ways of a pack of wolves. Accepted by their leader and befriended by a feisty pup named Kapu, she soon grows to love her new wolf family. Life in the wilderness is a struggle, but when she finds her way back to civilization, Miyax is torn between her old a new lives. Is she Miyax of the Eskimos -- or Julie of the wolves?

Product Details

• Hardcover: 588 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (1972)
• ISBN-10: 0060002395
• ISBN-13: 978-0060002398
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.9 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,210,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Julie of the Wolves, April 29, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Julie of the Wolves: Treasury (Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack) (Hardcover)

Julie of the Wolves

Julie of the Wolves is a touching story that explains the life of a young Eskimo girl named Miyax, or in English, Julie. Julie is lost on the tundra and cannot find her way home... Until she finds a pack of wolves and becomes friends with them. Julie befriends the leader of the wolves. She calls the leader of the wolves Amoroq. She also befriends the largest of the pups. She calls the smallest pup Kapugen, after her father, but for short, Kapu. Julie soon finds out it is time for the wolves to move on, but she decides she cannot follow them. She starts to get more food and starts to head back home. It takes her about a month to get back home. But when Julie gets home, her father is safe and MARRIED!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Julie Of the wolves a fantastic adventure!, September 4, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Julie of the Wolves: Treasury (Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack) (Hardcover)

Julie Of The Wolves,a short series Alaskan adventures by Jean Craighead George.You would really like this first book if you like adventure that unravels from present to the past.Julie also known by Miyax her Eskimo name runs away when she finds a sitiuation that is intolerable.She trys to catch a ride to San Francisco in another part of Alaska only to be lost without food,or a compass.Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Artic Wolves,and she comes to love them as though they were her brothers.With their help,and drawing on her father's training,she struggles day by day to survive.I really thought Kapu one of the pups soon to be a leader was cute,and charming and that's why he is my favorite.Well to find out more about Julie Of The Wolves then go and pickup a copy of Julie Of the Wolves NOW!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book was EXCELLENT!, July 4, 2005

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Kye Reen Paradise "(Bibliomaniac)" (Windham, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Julie of the Wolves: Treasury (Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack) (Hardcover)

If readers didn't care for this book, it's probably because they are too young to understand a lot of it, or they are too young to be patient enough to get to the end, or they have not learned to appreciate all that is in nature. But the ending is well worth the trip.

This book was so good ? I can't even begin to explain it to you. Basically, this is about a young Eskimo girl who was taught by her grandfather to respect "the old ways," but the modern world is fast approaching, and Julie does not always like the changes she sees in her village and her father. Then her father leaves, placing her in a "foster family" type of situation, and it's not a good one... When something shocking almost happens, Julie makes a decision that changes her life. She decides to flee and go to her father, but in order to get there, Julie must make it over the wintry tundra, empty of everything but snow and ice and wolves. She shows such a respect for the animals that should be her enemies, and to survive the winter joins the pack. She learns a great deal about the world and herself, as she braves what few people can't even imagine in the face of trials.

I honestly didn't like it toward the ending at first, and I cried - which broke the tension for my 5th graders, because they got to laugh as I cried. I was enjoying such a cool cry that one of my students had to finish the last chapter for me! THAT was pretty funny. And when I got to the end, I realized that sometimes when the world can't change for us, WE have to change for the world, and adapt. So I got along with the ending, after all.

The book really gave us a view of the world as an "ecosystem," and the behavior of the wolves was very realistic and awesome. Each wolf had its own personality and played a role within the pack. Our whole class really enjoyed this - even the kids who hate to read!