She knew each flower on the hill where Amy’s house stood, each brick in the wall around the garden, and each tall blowing tree.

This attack assault is what prompts Miyax to flee Barrow, which leads to her becoming lost in the Arctic tundra.Īs the months passed, the letters from Amy became the most important thing in Julie’s life and the house in San Francisco grew more real than the house in Barrow. Still, when Daniel finally releases Miyax, he laughs to himself and promises to assault Miyax again tomorrow. Daniel attacks and tries to rape Miyax, though Miyax observes that Daniel’s face shows that he is just as “frightened” as she is. When Miyax is home alone one day, Daniel storms through the door, furious because the other schoolchildren ridiculed him for not being able to “mate” his wife. However, his condition provokes considerable teasing from kids at school. To Miyax’s relief, Daniel mostly ignores her after they are married. When Miyax travels to Barrow to marry Daniel and realizes that he is developmentally disabled, she refuses to believe that Kapugen knew about Daniel’s condition when he made the arrangement.

Miyax’s father Kapugen and Daniel’s father Naka arranged the marriage when the children were very young, and Miyax eventually agrees to the arrangement to escape her strict great-aunt Martha’s tyrannical rule. Like Miyax, he is just a child when they marry. It is also often on the American Library Association's annual list of Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books, partly due to the attempted sexual assault that triggers the main character's escape into the wilderness and survival adventure.Daniel is Miyax’s husband. The book is considered a classic and often assigned in middle and high school, but it has been labeled 'Not Recommended' by American Indians in Children's Literature for its lack of accuracy in depicting the Inuit experience.

Poetic text, simple illustrations, and the exploration of the impact of Western civilization on the natural world and Native culture enrich the saga of Miyax's adoption by the wolves and her trek across the Arctic. Other violence incudes the wolf pack attacking and killing a straggler wolf, a hunter shooting a wolf from a plane, and a bird dying. Forced into an arranged marriage at 13 to the mentally challenged son of her father's best friend, she flees after he tries to rape her, and survives in the Alaskan tundra by joining a wolf pack. Julie is her English name, given to her by her aunt who sends her to an American school. Parents need to know that 1973 Newbery Medal winner Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George, is the story of a young 'Eskimo' (Inuit) girl named Miyax. A trusted male figure turns out to be an alcoholic.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

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