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

by Jean Craighead George

Book Overview

Now available in this special boxed set: George's epic saga of Arctic adventure: Julie of the Wolves--winner of the 1973 Newbery Medal--and its sequels, Julie and Julie's Wolf Pack. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060002395
• ISBN13: 9780060002398
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.

Customer Reviews

still one of my favorite books of all time

I have loved wolves since I can remember & discovered Julie of the Wolves when I was probably around ten. Now almost two decades later, I still love the Julie series. Absolutely worth reading again & again. Give any of these a read if you like Julie: almost anything but especially My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner Fell & The Sight by David Clement-Davies The Redwall series by Brian Jacques

Julie of the Wolves

I am 8 years old and my Grandma read this with me on our Friday night sleepovers. Julie of the Wolves was very entertaining for me. I liked how it talked about wolves, they are my favorite animal. Julie of the Wolves is about a 13 year old Eskimo girl who ran away from home. She ran away from her husband and wanted to go to SanFrancisco. In the beginning of the book she watches a pack of wolves and names them. She watches how they talk to each other and learns to speak to them. They treat like a wolf pup and feed and protect her from danger. I liked the book alot, it helped me learn about wolves and the Eskimo life. It has good moments and sad moments, and I felt like I was there with Julie. Come read this book, you won't want it to end.

Julie of the Wolves was fantastic!

Julie of the Wolves was fantastic! It is one of my favourite books. I think this book should get not just the Newbery Medal but also all the medals in the world! It talks about an Eskimo girl who is known as Miyax to her people but known as Julie to a friend in San Francisco. Because she hates school, she decides to marry so she can escape school. Her husband is rotten to her and she escapes to the tundra. She gets lost and is accepted by a pack of wolves. In the end, Julie has to decide her lifestyle-to be Miyax of the Eskimos or be Julie of the Wolves.

This book was EXCELLENT!

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!

Julie of the Wolves

Julie of the WolvesJulie 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!!