[bksvol-discuss] Re: I'm going to the library tomorrow
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:15:20 -0800 (PST)
Having read Julie of the Wolves many, many years ago,
this summary tempts me to read it again and then the
sequel. smile
Cindy
--- Anastasia Saridakis <anamatia81@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Shelly and Kelly
> My library as the book too if you can't find it,
> I'll do it.
> If this is it my library has it:
>
> Tkae care
> Anastasia
> Julie
> George, Jean Craighead, 1919-
>
> Summary
> Julie's decision to return home to her people is
> not an easy one. But after many months in the
> wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that
> saved her life, she knows the time has come. Julie
> is not prepared, however, for all the changes that
> she finds. Her father has forsaken many of the old
> Eskimo traditions. He has given up his sled dogs for
> a snowmobile, and now looks after the musk oxen that
> serve as the village's income. He will do anything
> to protect them -- even shoot any wolves that might
> threaten the herd. Julie knows that, like her
> father, she must find a way to reconcile the old
> ways with the new. But how can she do that without
> putting her beloved wolves in danger?"This sequel to
> 1973 Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves
> continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen.
> Miyax is now living in Kangik village with her
> father, Kapugen. The one shadow that looms over
> Miyax is her knowledge that Kapugen will shoot more
> of her beloved wolves if they
> threaten the herd that he is raising as part of the
> village's industry. Their fate depends on whether or
> not Miyax can prove to her father what he once knew
> but seems to have forgotten: that Eskimos and
> animals must coexist as friends."-K. "This is that
> rare thing, a sequel worthy of the original."-C.
> 1995 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) 1995
> Teachers Choices (IRA) 1994 Books for a Youth
> Editors' Choice (BL) Best Books of 1994 (Publishers
> Weekly) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children
> for 1995 (NCSS/CBC) 1994 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)
> Children's Books of 1994 (Library of Congress) 100
> Titles for Reading and Sharing 1994 (NY Public
> Library) Outstanding Books of 1994 for Middle
> School-Aged Teens (V) Notable Children's Trade Books
> in Social Studies 1995
>
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