![]() ![]() Fortunately for Julie, Daniel, who is “slow,” doesn’t actually know what to do once he has knocked Julie down, and she escapes. ![]() But Daniel is teased, and so tries to have his way with Julie. ![]() Generally, these arrangements are ignored until the children grow. The reason is that Julie, although only 13, has been married off to Daniel, a young Eskimo boy. This book has been banned in some school districts. In Part II, we find out how Miyax got in her present predicament, and in Part III, we learn how it is resolved. This is the story of how she accomplishes that goal. She comes upon a wolf pack, and in desperation, determines that her life depends on the pack accepting her and helping her survive. ![]() In Part I of this short book, Miyax (called Julie in English), decides to run away and stay with a pen-pal in San Francisco, but gets lost without sufficient food on the North Slope of Alaska. This is a great “issues” book for middle graders, first published in 1972 (and reprinted many times thereafter), about a 13-year-old Eskimo girl who must learn to adjust to a reality increasingly tangled up between the old world of traditions and the new world of the gussaks, or white-faced people. ![]()
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