The second part tells Miyax's life before part one. She also recognizes birds and, knowing their migration habits, is able to discern her location and direction. She is accepted, and is able to care for herself. She decides to join a wolf pack to survive, so she studies their behavior and imitates it. Miyax has run out of provisions for her trip, and realizes that she is lost. We find that she is only thirteen years old, and is going to meet a friend in San Francisco. In the first part tells we meet Miyax on the Arctic tundra after running away from her marriage.

A thrilling adventure story., 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., The whole book has a rare, intense reality which the artist enhances beautifully with animated drawings. This 1973 Newbery Medal-winning book is compelling. It is refreshing to see the Arctic well portrayed through a woman's eyes., 'Similar to Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Julie of the Wolves is a story about survival.' (from the article '15 Banned Books Every Tween and Teen Should Read'), Protected by a wolf pack while lost on the tundra, a 13-year-old Eskimo girl begins to appreciate her heritage and the oneness with nature that modern man is destroying.

The evocatively written, empathetic story effectively evokes the nature of wolves and dramatizes how the traditional Eskimo way of life is giving way before the relentless onlaught of civilization., novel is packed with expert wolf lore, its narrative beautifully conveying the sweeping vastness of tundra as well as many other aspects of the Arctic, ancient and modern, animal and human. Is she the Miyax of her human village-or Julie of the wolves? Don't miss any of the books in Jean Craighead George's groundbreaking series: Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack. Life in the wilderness is a struggle, but when she finds her way back to civilization, Miyax is torn between her old and new lives. Miyax tries to survive by copying the ways of a pack of wolves and soon grows to love her new wolf family. When her life in the village becomes dangerous, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness. To her small village, she is known as Miyax to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie.

The survival theme makes it a good pick for readers of wilderness adventures such as My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, or Island of the Blue Dolphins. Julie of the Wolves is a staple in the canon of children's literature and the first in the Julie trilogy. The thrilling Newbery Medal-winning classic about a girl lost on the Alaskan tundra and how she survives with the help of a wolf pack.

Julie by Jean Craighead George