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Tags: Juvenile, Fiction
Summary
In this Newbery Medal–winning book, a young Eskimo
girl must join a pack of wolves to survive When her
mother dies and her father heads to war, thirteen-year-old
Miyax is sent away to be married to a boy she barely knows.
Unhappy in her new life, she flees from her home in Alaska,
intending to find her way to San Francisco, where her pen pal,
Amy (who knows Miyax as "Julie"), lives. The Alaskan
tundra is vast and white, and Miyax soon becomes lost. When she
comes across a wolf pack, she decides to make her camp nearby,
hoping to befriend the wild animals. As she lives among the
wolves, speaking to them in their own language, Miyax sees that
the old Eskimo ways will help her to survive—but is
survival enough? This ebook features an illustrated
biography of Jean Craighead George, including rare photos from
the author's personal collection.