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Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
This book really made an impression on me when I first read it. I couldn't tell you exactly what I learned from it, because the feelings that I have run so deeply, but what I can say is that this book is amazing.
It's a YA novel (which you can tell because it won the Newbery Medal) but it doesn't feel like a YA one. It's only YA so far as it's length. This could easily have achieved proportions of 500 to 800 pages of adventures, but George decided to keep things succinct and to the point.
The plot flows; the reader feels as though they are Julie and having to go through all her obstacles with her, including marriage at 13 to a horrible husband, running away, living in the wilds, confronting wolves, just to eventually reach San Francisco. Because of this goal, you can tell her age (most adults are so jaded they know that it's almost next to impossible to make it from the Tundra to SF) but it's also very refreshing to have a protagonist who is so young in years and yet very old in the ways of her people.
On that note, I loved learning about the Eskimos as well. I don't know how accurate the information that was given to me was, but it certainly was interesting!
It's a YA novel (which you can tell because it won the Newbery Medal) but it doesn't feel like a YA one. It's only YA so far as it's length. This could easily have achieved proportions of 500 to 800 pages of adventures, but George decided to keep things succinct and to the point.
The plot flows; the reader feels as though they are Julie and having to go through all her obstacles with her, including marriage at 13 to a horrible husband, running away, living in the wilds, confronting wolves, just to eventually reach San Francisco. Because of this goal, you can tell her age (most adults are so jaded they know that it's almost next to impossible to make it from the Tundra to SF) but it's also very refreshing to have a protagonist who is so young in years and yet very old in the ways of her people.
On that note, I loved learning about the Eskimos as well. I don't know how accurate the information that was given to me was, but it certainly was interesting!