Reviews

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

lay_kone's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual assault

tinada1nonly's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

This is the book I felt like I missed out when I was young. Now I know I really did miss out reading this when I was young. I would have treasured this book. I will treasure this book. Beautifully written and now hard to forget. 

debandleo's review

5.0

One of my all-time favorite YA novels.

missbookiverse's review against another edition

4.0

I had borrowed this book from the library back when I was really into books involving wolves.
It was a great read. The way it mostly only involves one human being (Julie), the way Julie names all the wolves (I loved the names so much that I named the wolves on one of my posters after them) and describes their behaviour.
One of the things I still remember from this book clearly (aka which must have impressed me) is Julie being married to another guy even though they're both only teenagers.
Should reread it one day.

rhale87's review

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

3.5

anamazingday's review

sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The first half is SO slow and not a lot happens. Things pick up in the second half a lot!

skelley9414's review

4.0

I read this when I was younger as well but I read it for a book report for school and I loved it. I had so much fun with it.

wormoncat's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

cassietea783's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Sexual assault

surpriseitem's review

1.0

How did this get a Newberry Medal award? It was terrible. But, then again, that is probably just me. But, the writing was terrible! I didn't like the plot, and I really just don't think it was very . . . Realistic. Who would go up to a wolf and try to "learn its ways?" Most of the time, I like learning about cultures in fiction books, it makes learning all the more fun, but I could barely swim through this book.