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Julie's decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come.
Julie is not prepared, however, for all the changes that she finds. Her father has forsaken many of the old Eskimo traditions. He has given up his sled dogs for a snowmobile, and now looks after the musk oxen that serve as the village's income. He will do anything to protect them—even shoot any wolves that might threaten the herd. Julie knows that, like her father, she must find a way to reconcile the old ways with the new. But how can she do that without putting her beloved wolves in danger?
Julie is not prepared, however, for all the changes that she finds. Her father has forsaken many of the old Eskimo traditions. He has given up his sled dogs for a snowmobile, and now looks after the musk oxen that serve as the village's income. He will do anything to protect them—even shoot any wolves that might threaten the herd. Julie knows that, like her father, she must find a way to reconcile the old ways with the new. But how can she do that without putting her beloved wolves in danger?
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First published March 1, 1994
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Jean Craighead George
204 books1,505 followersJean Craighead George wrote over eighty popular books for young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and the Newbery Honor book My Side of the Mountain. Most of her books deal with topics related to the environment and the natural world. While she mostly wrote children's fiction, she also wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods, and an autobiography, Journey Inward.
The mother of three children, (Twig C. George, Craig, and T. Luke George) Jean George was a grandmother who joyfully read to her grandchildren since the time they were born. Over the years Jean George kept one hundred and seventy-three pets, not including dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behaviour and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."
The mother of three children, (Twig C. George, Craig, and T. Luke George) Jean George was a grandmother who joyfully read to her grandchildren since the time they were born. Over the years Jean George kept one hundred and seventy-three pets, not including dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behaviour and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."
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May 11, 2022
We are cruising along the Inside Passage on our way to Alaska and I’ve just finished the 1994 sequel to the 1973 Julie of the Wolves, simply titled ‘Julie.’
Miyax is now 15 and living with her father and his white wife in Kangik village. She has learned to love her stepmom and forgive her dad, although she doesn’t fully understand what drove her dad to kill Amaroq, one of her beloved wolves. Her dad has been raising musk oxen and wolves are a major threat to his livelihood, so he sees them through a different lens than Miyax. Her quest in this book is to get her father to realize that the Eskimo (Inuit) and the villagers can co-exist.
I loved how Craighead George explored change. It can’t have been easy for Julie to return to her father and his new wife. Furthermore, it can’t have been easy to see all the changes since he’s been gone; he flies planes, has traded his dogsled for a snowmobile, and abandoned his hunting for raising musk oxen for the village. I liked how we had a behind the scenes view of Julie’s struggle about wanting an education but not at the risk of losing her wolf pack. The most interesting part was when Julie found the inner strength to stand up to her dad and his different views of the role of nature. She approached it from a place of recent experience and had the respect to give them time to see her point of view. It was refreshing to have the dynamic reversed for a change.
What I didn’t like:
1) the addition of a love interest with Peter. It wasn’t necessary and didn’t add to the story.
2) how the Caribou returned and prevented Julie from wrapping up her conversation with her father
3) the white privileged wife changes the Inuit husband’s way of life
4) the lack of emotion/grief related to Amaroq
Miyax is now 15 and living with her father and his white wife in Kangik village. She has learned to love her stepmom and forgive her dad, although she doesn’t fully understand what drove her dad to kill Amaroq, one of her beloved wolves. Her dad has been raising musk oxen and wolves are a major threat to his livelihood, so he sees them through a different lens than Miyax. Her quest in this book is to get her father to realize that the Eskimo (Inuit) and the villagers can co-exist.
I loved how Craighead George explored change. It can’t have been easy for Julie to return to her father and his new wife. Furthermore, it can’t have been easy to see all the changes since he’s been gone; he flies planes, has traded his dogsled for a snowmobile, and abandoned his hunting for raising musk oxen for the village. I liked how we had a behind the scenes view of Julie’s struggle about wanting an education but not at the risk of losing her wolf pack. The most interesting part was when Julie found the inner strength to stand up to her dad and his different views of the role of nature. She approached it from a place of recent experience and had the respect to give them time to see her point of view. It was refreshing to have the dynamic reversed for a change.
What I didn’t like:
1) the addition of a love interest with Peter. It wasn’t necessary and didn’t add to the story.
2) how the Caribou returned and prevented Julie from wrapping up her conversation with her father
3) the white privileged wife changes the Inuit husband’s way of life
4) the lack of emotion/grief related to Amaroq
October 3, 2018
While I do enjoy this second part of the trilogy for its peek into Eskimo life and how differently they see things from us gussaks, not to mention the kind of adorable visit with the wolves, there are two things that bug me. Peter, for one. A romance is almost never necessary, and in this case, I found it especially egregious. And the second, the progression with the wolves. In the first book, everything took time, patience, and a lot of watching and studying. In this one, things resolved themselves more often than not, and a little too quickly. The only other problem I have is a personal one; I have a hard time visualizing when people describe putting things together in books. This was a problem for me in the first one, too, but it wasn't as noticeable, because I didn't have any other issues.
Still, it was a great follow-up.
Still, it was a great follow-up.
August 21, 2021
This has a far more uplifting ending than the first one, but the issues I mentioned in my first review still bother me (aside from my personal inability to visualize objects being put together as described in books; I'm better with that now, hooray) and now I have new troubles. This book is just too long. Normally, that's not a complaint I would make, but so much time is spent in this tug-of-war between Miyax and Kapugen with neither of them giving any ground whatsoever that it gets tedious -- and simultaneously makes the ending feel rushed, because the development isn't there to support it. Still, it's a more satisfying conclusion to Miyax's story than the first book.
First review
While I do enjoy this second part of the trilogy for its peek into Eskimo life and how differently they see things from us gussaks, not to mention the kind of adorable visit with the wolves, there are two things that bug me. Peter, for one. A romance is almost never necessary, and in this case, I found it especially egregious. And the second, the progression with the wolves. In the first book, everything took time, patience, and a lot of watching and studying. In this one, things resolved themselves more often than not, and a little too quickly. The only other problem I have is a personal one; I have a hard time visualizing when people describe putting things together in books. This was a problem for me in the first one, too, but it wasn't as noticeable, because I didn't have any other issues.
Still, it was a great follow-up.
First review
While I do enjoy this second part of the trilogy for its peek into Eskimo life and how differently they see things from us gussaks, not to mention the kind of adorable visit with the wolves, there are two things that bug me. Peter, for one. A romance is almost never necessary, and in this case, I found it especially egregious. And the second, the progression with the wolves. In the first book, everything took time, patience, and a lot of watching and studying. In this one, things resolved themselves more often than not, and a little too quickly. The only other problem I have is a personal one; I have a hard time visualizing when people describe putting things together in books. This was a problem for me in the first one, too, but it wasn't as noticeable, because I didn't have any other issues.
Still, it was a great follow-up.
January 24, 2020
I was OBSESSED with the first book in this series as a kid, but somehow I had NO idea there were follow up books? I really don't know how I missed that, but here I am reading this for the first time at 27 years old and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it.
I know as a kid, I would have liked this book - especially the portion that actually had the wolves in it. But as an adult, I'm looking at this through the eyes of someone who is very leery about white authors putting words in native folks' mouths. The relationship between Ellen and Julie was really touching, but parts of the book felt very stereotypical. I wasn't sure how to feel about Julie trying to "save her father from the white man's ways" and coax her village back into a healthy relationship with nature. That just seems very trope-y and I'm worried about the inaccuracies that I learned were so baked into the first book.
All in all, it's a good story about reconciliation between cultures and between family members with some fun talking to wolves. But I'm just nervous about hearing these simplified stories from white authors. I'd love to hear from any goodreads reviewers who are actually Inupiaq or Yupik and can speak to whether the story is respectful or not. Until then, I'll just kind of swim around in this tentative enjoyment and try to take everything with a grain of salt.
I know as a kid, I would have liked this book - especially the portion that actually had the wolves in it. But as an adult, I'm looking at this through the eyes of someone who is very leery about white authors putting words in native folks' mouths. The relationship between Ellen and Julie was really touching, but parts of the book felt very stereotypical. I wasn't sure how to feel about Julie trying to "save her father from the white man's ways" and coax her village back into a healthy relationship with nature. That just seems very trope-y and I'm worried about the inaccuracies that I learned were so baked into the first book.
All in all, it's a good story about reconciliation between cultures and between family members with some fun talking to wolves. But I'm just nervous about hearing these simplified stories from white authors. I'd love to hear from any goodreads reviewers who are actually Inupiaq or Yupik and can speak to whether the story is respectful or not. Until then, I'll just kind of swim around in this tentative enjoyment and try to take everything with a grain of salt.
December 12, 2024
It was cool to see this was part of a trilogy abs sequel to a book I has liked and read as a child.
February 28, 2020
This is a remarkable story. In this book, Julie goes back to live with his father and his white American wife in their Eskimo town. Her wolf pack is in danger of being killed by non other than her father but not for malicious reasons, rather because of safety, and economics. Julie loves her father and she loves the wolves. Her father allows her to go to the wolves and lead them away from town which she successfully and remarkably does. This book fascinated me and I learned so much about the Arctic, the Eskimo culture, and the strength of a young girl to stay on the course that she has set out for herself even though a young man has fallen in love with her.
July 6, 2019
A beautiful story of life, love and the wild north. I love how much Inuit/Eskimo culture is in it as well. It's a very accessible story for mid grade readers as well, as it is written in very straight forward language and does not judge anything. Any one who enjoys coming of age stories, or stories about the Artic would enjoy this as well.
April 4, 2025
I don’t know how accurate this book is as it was written by a white woman who didn’t live in Alaska. Nevertheless I found this book to be magical and, in my opinion, a very respectful, almost reverent portrayal of Inuit culture. Now, I’m not sure where the line between respectful, reverent storytelling bleeds into noble savage but I honestly didn’t get noble savage vibes. I am getting animal-whisperer vibes mixed with thousands of years of Inuit knowledge and culture. It was painful to read about the changes her town and culture faced but I also understood why her father and others were happy to explore new avenues of living that made their lives easier such as airplanes and electricity. And I understood how their loyalties and ideas about things fluctuate at times. Don’t we all move between wanting to honor tradition while also wanting the cutting edge? This novel explores that theme in a very engaging and thoughtful way.
The description of the tundra and the adoration of the landscape and way of life came through in every page. I come from a cold place and if you don’t find ways to love the winter, you will just be miserable. The people in the book have adapted so remarkably well to the tundra to the point that they feel enjoyment in living there. I felt that this love of the land and nature and animals was described beautifully.
I’m not sure why people are griping so much about Peter. It seems to me that in such an isolated community it would be a great boon to have “fresh” blood in the village. Also, Julie and Peter are teenagers. Just because they live in Northern Alaska doesn’t mean they don’t have all the same desires as any other teenager. Family and children seem to be the absolute center of society in this culture and it’s quite natural for young people to be open to meeting their life partners at a young age. Julie was married off at age 13. I get the feeling that long, intense, intimate courtships do not exist in the culture this book portrays. Julie is beautiful, talented, hard-working, supremely intelligent and flexible, she has a strong sense of self and a strong sense of community. She is brave and bi-lingual and a self-starter and a scholar and is a freaking warrior. Peter is described as not only being the ideal sort of young man that this culture appreciates, but he’s also tall, handsome, full of potential, he acts upon his dreams, he’s willing to take risks and try crazy things like going to an English speaking college when his English isn’t great, in a city! and he’s a fantastic dancer and he’s not playing games. He wants an education and wants to be a husband and father and contribute to society. I’m not sure what else we are supposed to know about him from a 220 page book. I think that’s plenty to know since he’s off to college for 4 years which will be a very long courtship and Julie has lots of time to get to know him. I thought it was lovely for Julie to meet a man that helps her to see that all men won’t cause her to run away into the tundra to live with wild animals rather than stay married.
The description of the tundra and the adoration of the landscape and way of life came through in every page. I come from a cold place and if you don’t find ways to love the winter, you will just be miserable. The people in the book have adapted so remarkably well to the tundra to the point that they feel enjoyment in living there. I felt that this love of the land and nature and animals was described beautifully.
I’m not sure why people are griping so much about Peter. It seems to me that in such an isolated community it would be a great boon to have “fresh” blood in the village. Also, Julie and Peter are teenagers. Just because they live in Northern Alaska doesn’t mean they don’t have all the same desires as any other teenager. Family and children seem to be the absolute center of society in this culture and it’s quite natural for young people to be open to meeting their life partners at a young age. Julie was married off at age 13. I get the feeling that long, intense, intimate courtships do not exist in the culture this book portrays. Julie is beautiful, talented, hard-working, supremely intelligent and flexible, she has a strong sense of self and a strong sense of community. She is brave and bi-lingual and a self-starter and a scholar and is a freaking warrior. Peter is described as not only being the ideal sort of young man that this culture appreciates, but he’s also tall, handsome, full of potential, he acts upon his dreams, he’s willing to take risks and try crazy things like going to an English speaking college when his English isn’t great, in a city! and he’s a fantastic dancer and he’s not playing games. He wants an education and wants to be a husband and father and contribute to society. I’m not sure what else we are supposed to know about him from a 220 page book. I think that’s plenty to know since he’s off to college for 4 years which will be a very long courtship and Julie has lots of time to get to know him. I thought it was lovely for Julie to meet a man that helps her to see that all men won’t cause her to run away into the tundra to live with wild animals rather than stay married.
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February 9, 2021
I love this author. She is so smart, weaving reality , fiction, nature, and love into her stories. They deal with the hardships of life, while still understanding that things can get better. You can learn a lot about persistence, caring, honesty and love in this book. It may be small, but it certainly teaches you a lot.
December 4, 2018
This was a solid sequel. It did a really good job of complicating thee plot of the first book. The only thing I wasn’t wild about was the romance. I don’t think we got to know Peter enough to understand why Julie likes him, never mind loves him. So it felt forced and sudden to me. But I’m looking forward to what the third book brings.
September 10, 2022
While I like the clash of cultures, Julie’s father seems to misrepresent the Native Americans. The tension comes from him adopting white customs but it rings false, especially when he says to his white wife he needs to adopt her ways to survive. There are several insensitive comments that the reader should be aware of.
March 11, 2021
This was a really good book. I like how Jean expressed Julie’s transition from living with wolves to living with her father and Ellen. I loved the drawings and the detail that went into the story. Julie is a really good character, and the plot was amazing 🤩!
November 15, 2019
Really loved this sequel!
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My Full Review
July 23, 2017
A very interesting follow up to the series that starts with a Young Eskimo girl running away from an arranged marriage and being rescued by wolves. Here Miyax (Julie) rejoins her father and learns the new ways he and others have adopted, while trying to balance this new learning with what she knows to be true.
The author seems familiar with Alaska which comes through in the writing, and the love for wolves makes it an enjoyable story. I recommend it.
The author seems familiar with Alaska which comes through in the writing, and the love for wolves makes it an enjoyable story. I recommend it.
August 17, 2020
Book on CD performed by Christina Moore.
Book two of the Julie of the Wolves series, has our heroine returning to her father’s home and trying to reconcile the traditional Eskimo ways with the newer structure of village corporations, industry and working with the white man.
Julie is a marvelous character. Strong in body and mind, intelligent, resourceful, determined and loving. She’s also a young woman trying to find her place in the community after her year-long experience among the artic wolf pack she came to know as her family. She has a new stepmother, a red-haired Minnesotan named Ellen, whom she does not want to like. And she is taken aback to find that village life is very different from what she had remembered. Her father flies a plane, uses a snowmobile more often than his sled and dogs, and manages the village’s industry – a tiny herd of musk ox. Julie also faces a personal decision: to leave for more education to secure her future, or to stay and protect her wolf pack. And there is a possible romance that adds yet another element to consider in her decision-making.
The push/pull of old vs new, of childhood vs adulthood, of nature vs business form the central conflicts in the story.
The illustrations by Wendell Minor add a nice touch and support the scenes I had imagined from reading George’s descriptions.
Christina Moore does a fine job of the audio, although I did find the pace a bit slow. I probably read at least half the book in text format.
Book two of the Julie of the Wolves series, has our heroine returning to her father’s home and trying to reconcile the traditional Eskimo ways with the newer structure of village corporations, industry and working with the white man.
Julie is a marvelous character. Strong in body and mind, intelligent, resourceful, determined and loving. She’s also a young woman trying to find her place in the community after her year-long experience among the artic wolf pack she came to know as her family. She has a new stepmother, a red-haired Minnesotan named Ellen, whom she does not want to like. And she is taken aback to find that village life is very different from what she had remembered. Her father flies a plane, uses a snowmobile more often than his sled and dogs, and manages the village’s industry – a tiny herd of musk ox. Julie also faces a personal decision: to leave for more education to secure her future, or to stay and protect her wolf pack. And there is a possible romance that adds yet another element to consider in her decision-making.
The push/pull of old vs new, of childhood vs adulthood, of nature vs business form the central conflicts in the story.
The illustrations by Wendell Minor add a nice touch and support the scenes I had imagined from reading George’s descriptions.
Christina Moore does a fine job of the audio, although I did find the pace a bit slow. I probably read at least half the book in text format.
May 31, 2012
A great sequel to Julie of the Wolves. However this is not about survival on the Alaskian plains, which I was hoping for more of and so I was disappointed by that. The story is about Julie's struggles to keep up with Eskimo tradition in an ever white man dominated world.
October 31, 2013
Julie #2
I liked this book because ther as some action! Also Julie has to survive in the arctic! Julie meets some wolves and has to try to learn how to speak to them! She also has to make them bring her some food! Then she has to decide to stay or go back home!! Hannah Steiner
I liked this book because ther as some action! Also Julie has to survive in the arctic! Julie meets some wolves and has to try to learn how to speak to them! She also has to make them bring her some food! Then she has to decide to stay or go back home!! Hannah Steiner
October 29, 2013
this book was a great story about wolves. it can get boring at times but overall a good story
September 10, 2016
Better than the first book , It even had a little romance . Good book.
November 6, 2025
The original Julie of the Wolves novel was written in 1973. 1994 and twenty-one years later, the author wrote Julie.
In the first book was Miyax, the English translation is Julie, left home after she was set up in an arranged marriage and her new husband showed signs of violence towards her. She lived on the Tundra with the wolves for 8 months and learnt to live with them and speech their language. She ends up finding her father living in the Kangik village married to a white woman.
In this novel, Miyax is now 15 and living with her father and his wife. Her father has taken on many white people traditions such as giving up the dog sled for the snowmobile, and using the musk oxen as the village's income. To her horror and sadness, she learns her father had killed Amaroq, one of her beloved wolves. She has no choice but to find a way to reconcile the old ways with the new, so her beloved wolves are not in danger?
Julie has a love interest. I didn't understand how there was one as they did not spend much time together for it to grow. Plus was it really necessary to add to the story?
I appreciated the drawings in the story.
In the first book was Miyax, the English translation is Julie, left home after she was set up in an arranged marriage and her new husband showed signs of violence towards her. She lived on the Tundra with the wolves for 8 months and learnt to live with them and speech their language. She ends up finding her father living in the Kangik village married to a white woman.
In this novel, Miyax is now 15 and living with her father and his wife. Her father has taken on many white people traditions such as giving up the dog sled for the snowmobile, and using the musk oxen as the village's income. To her horror and sadness, she learns her father had killed Amaroq, one of her beloved wolves. She has no choice but to find a way to reconcile the old ways with the new, so her beloved wolves are not in danger?
Julie has a love interest. I didn't understand how there was one as they did not spend much time together for it to grow. Plus was it really necessary to add to the story?
I appreciated the drawings in the story.
June 7, 2018
Read for Goodreads 2018 Summer Reading Challenge, Expert Level.
Read the World: Read a book that takes place in a country—or focuses on a culture—other than your own
I think I'm in the minority here, but I actually liked this book better than I did the first. For one thing, it doesn't deal with situations inappropriate for younger readers , which was in issue in the first book. But, also, I really appreciated the ability of the established adults in the story to learn, grow, and change. A good lesson for all of us!
Since I was reading this to focus on a culture that is different from mine, I will share my favorite quote from the book:
Nations make borders, cultures do not.
This is so true. We divide ourselves up because of rivers or mountains or wars, but, really, we can all find unity in cultures that extent far beyond our borders. Excellent message, and a wonderful book.
Content Advisory: Death, hunting, gun usage
Read the World: Read a book that takes place in a country—or focuses on a culture—other than your own
I think I'm in the minority here, but I actually liked this book better than I did the first. For one thing, it doesn't deal with situations inappropriate for younger readers , which was in issue in the first book. But, also, I really appreciated the ability of the established adults in the story to learn, grow, and change. A good lesson for all of us!
Since I was reading this to focus on a culture that is different from mine, I will share my favorite quote from the book:
Nations make borders, cultures do not.
This is so true. We divide ourselves up because of rivers or mountains or wars, but, really, we can all find unity in cultures that extent far beyond our borders. Excellent message, and a wonderful book.
Content Advisory: Death, hunting, gun usage
June 14, 2021
Set in harsh Northern Alaska, in a small village named Kangik, a young Inuit girl named Julie/Miyax reunites with her father Kapogen after living on the Tundra with no one but wolves to aide her. The transition back to civilization isn’t smooth, as Julie is surprised to find that her father has married an American woman named Ellen in her absence, and has abandoned many of their traditional Inuit ways. Julie feels pulled between her love of for her wolf pack and the old traditions that kept her alive on the tundra, and the togetherness that her father’s modern new lifestyle had. The straightforward text and the narration done through Julie’s eyes, combined with classic watercolor illustrations provide the reader with a thoughtful glance into Miyax’s heart as she struggles to find her identity.
AK: Snowmobiles, Wolves, Musk Ox, Caribou, Traditional Clothes, Fairbanks
Activity: Have your students pretend to be Julie and make a pros and cons list for living in the wild vs. staying with her father.
AK: Snowmobiles, Wolves, Musk Ox, Caribou, Traditional Clothes, Fairbanks
Activity: Have your students pretend to be Julie and make a pros and cons list for living in the wild vs. staying with her father.
July 6, 2018
I really liked reading Julie because of how it illustrated relationships between different things. A girl and her father, a girl and her pets, a girl and her step mother, a girl and her lover, and a girl and her people. At first like all kids who have stepparents Julie didn't get along with Ellen but changed her mind about her later on. At first Julie had a disturbed feeling about her dad but later she said that this was the man she remembered. And the most meaningful relationship in this book, or at least according to me, was Julie's relationship with the wolves. They fed her when she was younger,they sheltered her, and in the end she cared for them as well. It was very sweet, how Julie lead the wolves away to the moose so she they wouldn't be killed by her father. I wonder how hard it was for her. Pets are like your family but the wolves weren't exactly Julie's pets. They were literally her family since they saved her and she stayed with them for a long time.
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August 17, 2020
Julie returns to her father, making her home with him and her stepmother.
While enjoyable, and filled with lots of interesting wolf, tribal, and native lore, I found this less engrossing than the first featuring Julie. That may in part be the audio which was very slow paced and choppily read making speeding it up difficult.
While enjoyable, and filled with lots of interesting wolf, tribal, and native lore, I found this less engrossing than the first featuring Julie. That may in part be the audio which was very slow paced and choppily read making speeding it up difficult.
March 27, 2024
Julie, the second book, by Jean Craughead George is an adventure, and romance book. It tells the story about Julie the skimo that married a horrible, sexist man, who beat her almost every day, so she decided to run away to her hometown, and she had a lot of adventures, meet wolves and they became a family, but when she return to her hometown she discovered her dad married, and had one ox, the wolves were hungry and tried to eat the ox, but julie's dad killed one of Julie's friends wolf to protect the ox, the wolf name was Kapugen, and the end had a incredible surprise that after julie and her dad made peace, his father's wife was going to have a son!, Julie was going to be a sister! and to honor kapugen the dead wolf, they named his son kapugen. I think you should read this book because it teaches how to be self confident and how you deal with your problems.
March 24, 2025
I just love this series! I think I’m getting into my second childhood! These series is listed “young preteen to young adult…but I love them and I’m 84! I just finished the first of this series, “Julie of the Wolves”. Then read the second “Julie”., and am now listening to the third and last of this series, “Julie’s Wolf Pack”. This review is after finishing the 2nd….I am thoroughly enjoying the life style of the Eskimos/Inuit of Alaska. And the author’s description of wolf habits, language, life style, to me is totally entrancing! I haven’t yet read about how much is true and how much is from a rich imagination…but she writes with such clarity and passion that I have to think it is authentic! After reading the third in the series, I’ll move on but I will return to read more by her!
May 17, 2018
ulie's decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come.
Julie is not prepared, however, for all the changes that she finds. Her father has forsaken many of the old Eskimo traditions. He has given up his sled dogs for a snowmobile, and now looks after the musk oxen that serve as the village's income. He will do anything to protect them -- even shoot any wolves that might threaten the herd. Julie knows that, like her father, she must find a way to reconcile the old ways with the new. But how can she do that without putting her beloved wolves in danger?
Julie is not prepared, however, for all the changes that she finds. Her father has forsaken many of the old Eskimo traditions. He has given up his sled dogs for a snowmobile, and now looks after the musk oxen that serve as the village's income. He will do anything to protect them -- even shoot any wolves that might threaten the herd. Julie knows that, like her father, she must find a way to reconcile the old ways with the new. But how can she do that without putting her beloved wolves in danger?
October 26, 2020
Julie has been reunited with her father (this is book 2, so for details on why they were apart, see first book), but her father has remarried and it is to a white woman. She isn't sure if she likes or trusts someone who moves so fast and speaks with such a harsh accent and she won't speak English to her, either. Her father has given up the traditional ways, and now hunts wolves and has a herd of musk oxen in a corral. In the meantime, she hears Karu calling her (one of the wolves from the previous books) and she needs to try and get him and his pack to safety away from the hunters.
This book is a strong followup the the first one.
This book is a strong followup the the first one.
June 24, 2024
Finished the second book in the JULIE OF THE WOLVES series. This book was published in 1994 which is a few years after I would've read the original in fourth grade and likely two decades or more after the first was published. I don't have the nostalgia factor for #2 and I didn't find as much magic in this later tale -- I like the Julie-in-the-wildnerness narratives the most in the original and I liked that section the best in the sequel, though I recognize the continued relevance of the culture clash and economic class happening in her Eskimo village. I appreciate her development into a levelheaded adolescent, but I have a particular fondness for her child-on-the tundra original story.
November 2, 2023
A very satisfying wrap-up that merges into YA territory, as Miyax is now thinking of high school and (one day) marriage with a young man who seems a little more interested in her than she is of him. (But there is a fondness there that has potential to grow!)
I suspect the story should've ended here, however. I acknowledge that it's too soon to tell (I'm not through the first chapter yet), but I'm not sure the story of the wolves without Miyax or any other human presence will be that engaging.
I suspect the story should've ended here, however. I acknowledge that it's too soon to tell (I'm not through the first chapter yet), but I'm not sure the story of the wolves without Miyax or any other human presence will be that engaging.
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