Julie of the Wolves

By Jean Craighead George


 Miyax, known as Julie to her American pen pal Amy, is wed at age 13 to her father's friend's son Daniel. Miyax runs away headed towards San Francisco, where her friend Amy lives. But she soon gets lost in the arctic tundra with no food and not even a compass to guide her! She manages to survive by being excepted by a pack of arctic wolves led by a wolf she names Amaroq. Miyax learns to love them like family, but the time comes when she must leave the wilderness and choose between the old Eskimo ways or the new.

    
     The seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone.
     The spirits of the animals are passing away.
     Amaroq, Amaroq, you are my adopted father
     My feet dance because of you.
     My eyes see because of you.
    My mind thinks because of you, and it thinks, on this thundering night,
    That the hour of the wolf and the Eskimo is over.


 This book is suitable for 7th grade and up. There is one "questionable" part in the book, that needs the possible review of a parent.