During high school and college she discovered the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness, which became a lifelong magnet. Stray animals, wild animals, deep woods, ocean waves, storms and lakes helped shape her love for science and the natural world. Polly Carlson-Voiles grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, spending memorable long summers in Hawaii, Virginia, and the north woods of Minnesota. With vivid details about wolf behavior and a deep sense of interconnectedness with nature, this captivating first novel illuminates the intricacies of family while searching for the fine balance between caring for wild animals and leaving them alone.
Here in these woods, with this wolf, none of the hard things in her past can reach her. Nika, of all people, knows not to get her heart set on anything, but as she follows her uncle in his job studying wolves, Nika stumbles upon a relationship with an orphaned wolf pup that makes her feel - for the first time since her mother died - whole again. A phone call from their uncle sets them on a journey in a small floatplane over the thick green forest canopy, to spend the summer on a wilderness island. Since its first publication, Julie of The Wolves,winner of thr 1973 Newbery Medal, has found its way into the hearts of millions of readers.Julie of the Wolves meets Hatchet in this middle grade novel that follows orphaned twelve-year-old Nika and her seven-year-old brother Randall as they leave a California foster home to visit a long-lost uncle in the wilderness lake country of Northern Minnesota. After learning the language of the wolves and slowly earning their trust, Julie becomes a member of the pack. During her long and arduous journey, Miyax comes to appreciate the value of her Eskimo heritage, learns about herself, and wins the friednship of a pack of wolves. Miyax, or Julie as her pen pal Amy calls her, sets out alone to visit Amy in San Francisco, a world far away from Eskimo culture and the frozen land of Alaska. She finds herself caught between the traditional Eskimo ways and the modern ways of the whites. Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey acoss the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses the tundra. Which will she choose? For she is Miyax of the Eskimos–but Julie of the Wolves. But the time comes when she must leave the wilderness and choose between the old ways an(] the new. With their help, and drawing on her father’s teachings, Miyax struggles day by clay to survive. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, Mid she grows to love them as though they were family. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. Lost on the Tundra To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie.
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