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2[[caption-width-right:319:Julie of the [[FloatingHeadSyndrome BIG GIANT HEAD]].]]
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4A young Inuit girl named Miyax attempts to escape from her former home and winds up lost on the Arctic tundra. She runs into a pack of wolves and rather than devouring her, she is adopted by them. The book deals with her struggle to learn how to communicate with wolves and her reasons for leaving.
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6The first novel, ''Julie Of The Wolves'' was written by Creator/JeanCraigheadGeorge in 1972, and two sequels, ''Julie'' and ''Julie's Wolf Pack'', followed. The first installment is often studied in classrooms and is also one of the most frequently banned books in classrooms due to its portrayal of death, rape, violence and menstruation.
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9!!This book provides examples of:
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11* AerithAndBob:
12** The Inuit family Julie goes to live with in Barrow: Naka, his wife Nusan, and their son ''Daniel''. Inuits are said to have two names, one English and one Inuit, but whatever Daniel's Inuit name is supposed to be, it's never revealed.
13** Also the case with the wolf pack; we have names like Amaroq and Kapu, but there's also Silver, Nails, Jello, Sister, Zing, Zat, and Zit.
14* AnimalTalk: A more realistic version. Wolves don't communicate in words, but rather how we'd expect them to, with body language, touch and smells. Miyax spends a good third of the novel learning how to speak this new "language" and it's implied that other animals have their own set of signals like a flicking tail motion that shows that a ground squirrel is friendly.
15* ArrangedMarriage: At thirteen, Miyax marries the son of her father's business partner to escape living with her well-meaning but no-nonsense aunt. The match had been set up for Julie at a young age, but the ultimate decision was up to her. Another character explains that marriages like Julie's are quite common in their town and until both spouses get a bit older they mostly live like brothers and sisters.
16* AttemptedRape: The catalyst behind Julie's decision to leave her home is when her husband Daniel tries to force himself on her. Keep in mind they're both barely teenagers... and it's fairly ambiguous whether the assault ended at 'attempted'.
17* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sure, at the end Julie makes it out of the tundra and is reunited with her long-lost father, but Amaroq and Tornait are both dead and the traditional Eskimo way of life is effectively over.]]
18%%* DeathByNewberyMedal: Alas, poor [[spoiler:Amaroq]].
19* DeadGuyJunior: In ''Julie'', Julie gets a new baby half-brother who is named Amaroq, after the former alpha of the wolf pack.
20* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Certain foods and smells are described as being delicious or wonderful, but given that these items tend to be things like raw owl entrails and wolf piss, it's more {{Squick}} than anything. The former is an actual Eskimo delicacy, and the latter is due to Miyax's experience with wolves.
21* DisappearedDad: Miyax's father Kapugen disappears while kayaking and is presumed to be dead. [[spoiler:He's not.]]
22* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Kapugen turns out to have simply faked his death.]]
23* FloatingHeadSyndrome: Most editions of the book are victim to this, as seen in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/386286_1693.jpg our picture of the cover]].
24* HeadPet: Tornait the Arctic tern likes to perch on Julie's head.
25* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All three books of the series start with the word, "Julie".
26** ''Julie Of The Wolves''
27** ''Julie''
28** ''Julie's Wolf Pack''
29* ImmediateSequel: According to [[http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/qaa.html the author's website]], ''Julie'' picks up ten minutes from where the first book left off.
30* MaritalRapeLicense: Daniel assaults Julie because he's getting teased by other boys for having a wife and not having sex with her.
31* MissingMom: Miyax's mother died when she was four. This is what causes her father to leave his job and take Miyax to live at a seal camp. (At least until he is convinced to have his daughter with Aunt Martha and attend school.)
32* MoralMyopia: At one point, Miyax smugly thinks to herself that [[spoiler:Jello]] deserves to die because "if you're not useful to the pack, you're dead." Never mind that, by wolf standards, she's an honorary pup who will never grow up and thus will always rely on pack hunting/babysitting for survival.
33* NauseaFuel: Invoked several times by the DeliberateValuesDissonance, but the scene that stands out is the one where Miyax eats caribou meat regurgitated by a wolf ''and enjoys it''. Granted, she's been starving for weeks at this point.
34* NobleSavage: Played with. At first Julie is convinced of this herself, [[DeconstructedTrope but]] it's shown that some of the old ways can be counterproductive, HarmfulToMinors, or even [[DeliberateValuesDissonance just plain cruel by modern standards]].
35* NobleWolf: This story is about wolves as pack animals complete with their own language and family customs. Amaroq, the alpha male, is a particularly classic example.
36* NoPeriodsPeriod: Implied to be a trope present in Eskimo culture. Miyax hasn't had her first period yet, but an Eskimo couple she encounters on the tundra guesses that her period is the reason she's out there alone. The woman recalls an old and mostly-defunct tradition to [[WomensMysteries send young women into the wilderness by themselves]] when they are menstruating.
37* OneWordTitle: The second novel, ''Julie'', which is also a ProtagonistTitle, Julie being her first name.
38* ParentalAbandonment: Julie's mother is dead and her father places her with relatives so he can attend school.
39* ProtagonistTitle:
40** ''Julie Of The Wolves''
41** ''Julie''
42* RaisedByWolves: Kind of. She's not raised from infancy, but she is adopted by them as one of their own, at least for a while.
43* RapeAsDrama: Daniel tries to rape Julie.
44* RuleOfSymbolism: On the surface, it's a book about a young girl who joins a wolf pack. Underneath is a story of a young Inuit girl coming to terms with the cultural genocide inflicted upon her people. Much as she would love to live off the land and hunt seal like Kapugen or caribou like the wolves, [[spoiler:events beyond her control have destroyed their way of life so much that both she and Kapugen have to adopt Westernized customs -- like going to school and domesticating oxen -- to survive]].
45* ShooTheDog: Almost literally. [[spoiler:Miyax has to make the wolves leave at the end so they won't follow her to human territory and be killed.]]
46* SleepsInTheNude: Miyax, who always strips before climbing into her sleeping skin. This endangers her late in the story when Jello steals her pack just as she's waking up ... while most of her clothes are in a separate bag, the pack contains her boots, which are vital to her survival.
47 * ThatManIsDead: When Miyax leaves town, she declares "Julie is dead; I am Miyax now."
48* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Miyax, the name given to Julie at birth.
49* TruthInTelevision: The Inuit and many other indigenous peoples all over the world really have undergone decades or even centuries of cultural genocide.
50* {{Tuckerization}}: Miyax names Amaroq's son after her father Kapugen, though she calls him "Kapu" for short. In the sequel ''Julie'', Miyax names a new female pup after her pen pal Amy.
51* {{Xenofiction}}: Predominantly in ''Julie's Wolf Pack'', which is told from the perspective of the wolves.
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