Julie of The Wolves

By Jean Craighead George

Today I finished Julie of the Wolves. I liked it. It was about a girl named Miyax. She was named that because she is an Eskimo. Nevertheless, in SanFrancisco she has a pen pal that cannot pronounce her name so she calls her Julie. In the book she’s lost in the tundra but she got there is aw hole other story.

She lived in a house (a wooden square house) with her father Kapugen, but then her aunt Martha comes and she says she has to be schooled, so her aunt takes Miyax with her far away. Then a year later, her aunt comes in the room and said that her father died because he was seal camping and his partners said he did not come back for a month then they found parts of his boat washed up on shore. Then a person came and said she had to marry when she was thirteen to a boy named Daniel. However, she does not like it so she runs away she plans to go to San Francisco were her pen pal was.

Then she lost in the tundra were she wants food. So she tries to get some of the wolfs food so she tries to join the family of wolfs. Then she finds out who is the leader of the pack and she calls him Amaroq and she names the other dogs to Nails, Jello, and Kapu. Therefore, she asked Amaroq to be in his family and he said yes. After a while, the dogs started to betray Jello and the dogs killed him. Then Miyax head down the river to find a town that can bring her to San Fransico Amaroq was teaching kaput how to lead but then a helicopter came by, shot Amaroq, killed him, and now Kapu was the leader of the pack. Then Miyax starts getting closer to a hunting alone and she leaves the dogs behind. She builds an igloo house and lives there for days carving, and sewing. Then a family comes and Miyax wants them to come in for sleep so they do and she found out her father was alive he lived in a house just a day from her. After the family leaves she set off to find her father and she finds him he was remarried. However, she was not staying for long she was going to San Francisco on a plane tomorrow.