Next week we will begin our 5th novel. All three classes voted and the winning book is Julie of the Wolves!
1973 Newbery Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Miyax, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl is completely and utterly lost on the tundra of the North Slope of Alaska. This is so not good. She has run away from home and her boy-husband in Barrow, Alaska, and is headed for San Francisco to meet her pen pal, Amy. But things aren't going too well, apparently.
But our girl has a plan. She will become a member of a pack of wolves, which will give her access to food. So using their gestures, mannerisms, and howls, she manages to become friends with the pack, led by a regal wolf named Amaroq. She lives among them for a while, but when winter approaches, the wolves leave her to take up the nomadic (traveling) life of winter.
As Miyax thinks about this setback – now she's really alone – she remembers everything that happened in her life that got her to this point.
