num_pages: 170
description: Alone and lost--on the North Slope of AlaskaMiyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward the pen pal, who calls for Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as if they were her brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father's training, she struggles day by day to survive. In the process, she is forced to rethink her past, and to define for herself the traditional riches of Eskimo life; intelligence, fearlessness, and love.
language: English
title: Julie of the Wolves
titlecomplete: Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)
characters: Kapugen, Amaroq, Miyax
genres: Fiction, Animals, Adventure, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Classics, Childrens, Survival, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 59037
places: Alaska
series: Julie of the Wolves
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Zilveren Griffel, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Children's Books
publisher: Scholastic US