1. Julie by Jean Craighead George
Marvelous! Simply Marvelous!
Julies decision to return home to her people is not a n 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 villages
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?This sequel to 1973
Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie
Edwards Miyax Kapugen. Miyax is now living in Kangik village with her
father, Kapugen. The one shadow that looms over Miyax is her knowledge
that Kapugen will shoot more of her beloved wolves if they threaten the
herd that he is raising as part of the villages industry. Their fate depends
on whether or not Miyax can prove to her father what he once knew but
seems to have forgotten: that Eskimos and animals must coexist as
friends.—K. This is that rare thing, a sequel worthy of the original. —C.
1995 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
1995 Teachers Choices (IRA)
1994 Books for a Youth Editors Choice (BL)
Best Books of 1994 (Publishers Weekly)
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children for 1995 (NCSS/CBC)
1994 Pick of the Lists (ABA)
Childrens Books of 1994 (Library of Congress)
100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 1994 (NY Public Library)
Outstanding Books of 1994 for Middle School-Aged Teens (V)
Notable Childrens Trade Books in Social Studies 1995 (NCSS/CBC)
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2. At thirteen, Julie Edwards - or Miyax Kapugen - was married according to
the agreement between her parents and those of her bridegroom.
Miserably unhappy in her temperamental husband's home, Julie fled. She
and a wolf pack befriended each other, out in the wilds of her native
Alaska, and because of the wolves Julie has survived to find her way
home. Back to her widowed father, who (to her considerable surprise) has
missed her and looked for her. And then, when told falsely of her death,
has mourned for the daughter he loved and now knows he should not have
pushed into that early marriage.
In Julie's absence Kapugen has married again, and his new wife is a
schoolteacher from Minnesota. Ellen has convinced Kapugen to give up,
for the most part, his life as an Eskimo hunter. Although they still live in the
village where they met, Kapugen flies an airplane and cares for a herd of
domesticated musk oxen while Ellen continues with her teaching job.
Julie's homecoming is marred not only by her doubts about her father's
choice of a fair-skinned, red-haired outsider as his new wife, but also - far
more - by her terror of Kapugen's insistence that if and when the wolf pack
comes to hunt his musk oxen, he must kill them. Julie knows that Kapugen
means it, because he killed one of "her" wolves before. She can't go off to
high school in Fairbanks, not even when she falls in love with a young
Eskimo man who will be going to the university there. She has to stay in
the village until she figures out how to save her wolves from Kapugen,
whom she loves despite his growing departure from the ways he taught
her to follow.
Coming of age novels with girl protagonists are rare enough, if one doesn't
count (and I certainly do not!) those books whose whole point is how that
girl learns to accept the limits of traditional femininity as the cost of mature
happiness. Books like this one, about a girl who comes of age by meeting
physical and intellectual challenges thrown at her by Nature itself - and by
the clash of cultures, too - are rarer still. Marvelous! Simply marvelous!
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