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* DeathByNewberyMedal: Alas, poor [[spoiler:Amaroq]].

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* %%* DeathByNewberyMedal: Alas, poor [[spoiler:Amaroq]].



* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Her father Kapugen.]]

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Her father Kapugen.[[spoiler:Kapugen turns out to have simply faked his death.]]



* 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 plain cruel by modern standards]].

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* 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]].
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Daniel has an unspecified mental disability. His being teased by others for it is what prompts him to try to force himself on Miyax.
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A young 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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A 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.



* AerithAndBob: 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.

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* AerithAndBob: AerithAndBob:
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The Inuit family Julie goes to live with in Barrow: Naka, his wife Nusan, and their son ''Daniel''.
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''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.



* NobleSavage: Played with. At first Julie is convinced of this herself, but it's shown that some of the old ways can be counterproductive, HarmfulToMinors, or even plain cruel by modern standards.

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* NobleSavage: Played with. At first Julie is convinced of this herself, but [[DeconstructedTrope but]] it's shown that some of the old ways can be counterproductive, HarmfulToMinors, or even [[DeliberateValuesDissonance plain cruel by modern standards.standards]].



* 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:colonialism has destroyed their way of life so much that both she and Kapugen have to adopt white customs -- like going to school and domesticating oxen -- to survive]].

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* 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:colonialism has [[spoiler:events beyond her control have destroyed their way of life so much that both she and Kapugen have to adopt white Westernized customs -- like going to school and domesticating oxen -- to survive]].



* TruthInTelevision: The Inuit and other indigenous peoples all over the world really have undergone decades or even centuries of cultural genocide.

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* TruthInTelevision: The Inuit and many other indigenous peoples all over the world really have undergone decades or even centuries of cultural genocide.
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* 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.



* 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.



* 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 Eskimo way of life is over.]]

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* 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.]]



* DeadGuyJunior: In ''Julie'', Julie gets a new baby half-brother that is named Amaroq, after the former alpha of the wolf pack.

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* DeadGuyJunior: In ''Julie'', Julie gets a new baby half-brother that who is named Amaroq, after the former alpha of the wolf pack.



* 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 on her by white people. Much as she would love to live off the land and hunt seal like Kapugen or caribou like the wolves, [[spoiler:white people have destroyed their way of life so much that both she and Kapugen have to adopt white customs -- like go to school and domesticate oxen -- to survive.]]

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* 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 on upon her by white people. Much as she would love to live off the land and hunt seal like Kapugen or caribou like the wolves, [[spoiler:white people have [[spoiler:colonialism has destroyed their way of life so much that both she and Kapugen have to adopt white customs -- like go going to school and domesticate domesticating oxen -- to survive.]]survive]].



* TruthInTelevision: Inuit people have undergone decades of cultural genocide at the hands of white people.

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* TruthInTelevision: The Inuit people and other indigenous peoples all over the world really have undergone decades or even centuries of cultural genocide at the hands of white people.genocide.

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* ThatManIsDead: When Miyax leaves town, she declares "Julie is dead; I am Miyax now."
* 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.]]



* SleepsInTheNude: Miyax. 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.

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* 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.]]
* SleepsInTheNude: Miyax.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. survival.
* ThatManIsDead: When Miyax leaves town, she declares "Julie is dead; I am Miyax now."
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* SleepsInTheNude: Miyax. 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.
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* OneWordTitle: The second novel, ''Julie'', which is also a ProtagonistTitle, being her first name.

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* OneWordTitle: The second novel, ''Julie'', which is also a ProtagonistTitle, Julie being her first name.



* RapeAsDrama: When Daniel tries to rape Julie that is not funny.

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* RapeAsDrama: When Daniel tries to rape Julie that is not funny.Julie.



* 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 on her by white people. Much as she would love to live off the land and hunt seal like Kapugen or caribou like the wolves, [[spoiler:white people have destroyed their way of life so much that both she and Kapugen have to adopt white customs - like go to school and domesticate oxen - to survive.]]

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* 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 on her by white people. Much as she would love to live off the land and hunt seal like Kapugen or caribou like the wolves, [[spoiler:white people have destroyed their way of life so much that both she and Kapugen have to adopt white customs - -- like go to school and domesticate oxen - -- to survive.]]
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%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * RapeAsDramaRapeAsDrama: When Daniel tries to rape Julie that is not funny.
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* DeadGuyJunior: In ''Julie'', Julie gets a new baby half-brother that is named Amaroq, after the former alpha of the wolf pack.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: Several decades after the book was published it's been discovered that wolf packs aren't so much a social structure based on dominance, but a nuclear family with the mother and father being the leaders.
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* MaritalRapeLicense: Daniel assaults Julie because he's getting teased by other men for having a wife and not having sex with her.

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* MaritalRapeLicense: Daniel assaults Julie because he's getting teased by other men boys for having a wife and not having sex with her.
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoler:Her father Kapugen.]]

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoler:Her [[spoiler:Her father Kapugen.]]

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoler:Her father Kapugen.]]



* 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''.

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* 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.
* 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.


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* 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.]]
* 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 on her by white people. Much as she would love to live off the land and hunt seal like Kapugen or caribou like the wolves, [[spoiler:white people have destroyed their way of life so much that both she and Kapugen have to adopt white customs - like go to school and domesticate oxen - to survive.]]


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* TruthInTelevision: Inuit people have undergone decades of cultural genocide at the hands of white people.

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%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * HeadPet: Tornait the Arctic tern.

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%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * HeadPet: Tornait the Arctic tern.tern likes to perch on Julie's head.


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* ThatManIsDead: When Miyax leaves town, she declares "Julie is dead; I am Miyax now."

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* 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.

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* 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.teenagers... and it's fairly ambiguous whether the assault ended at 'attempted'.



* MaritalRapeLicense: Daniel assaults Julie because he's getting teased by other men for having a wife and not having sex with her.



* 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 send young women into the wilderness by themselves when they are menstruating.

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* 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 themselves]] when they are menstruating.



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%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ParentalAbandonmentParentalAbandonment: Julie's mother is dead and her father places her with relatives so he can attend school.



%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * {{Xenofiction}}: Not so much the first two installments, but the last book, ''Julie's Wolf Pack'', certainly qualifies.

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%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * {{Xenofiction}}: Not so much the first two installments, but the last book, Predominantly in ''Julie's Wolf Pack'', certainly qualifies.
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[[caption-width-right:319: Julie of the [[FloatingHeadSyndrome BIG GIANT HEAD]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:319: Julie [[caption-width-right:319:Julie of the [[FloatingHeadSyndrome BIG GIANT HEAD]].]]]]



The 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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking menstruation]].

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The 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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking menstruation]].
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: Alas, poor [[spoiler: Amaroq]].

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* DeathByNewberyMedal: Alas, poor [[spoiler: Amaroq]].[[spoiler:Amaroq]].



* DisappearedDad: Miyax's father Kapugen disappears while kayaking and is presumed to be dead. [[spoiler: He's not.]]
* FloatingHeadSyndrome: Most editions of the book are victim to this.
* HeadPet: Tornait the Arctic tern.

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* DisappearedDad: Miyax's father Kapugen disappears while kayaking and is presumed to be dead. [[spoiler: He's [[spoiler:He's not.]]
* FloatingHeadSyndrome: Most editions of the book are victim to this.
this, as seen in [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/386286_1693.jpg our picture of the cover]].
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* HeadPet: Tornait the Arctic tern.tern.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All three books of the series start with the word, "Julie".
** ''Julie Of The Wolves''
** ''Julie''
** ''Julie's Wolf Pack''



* ParentalAbandonment

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* ParentalAbandonmentOneWordTitle: The second novel, ''Julie'', which is also a ProtagonistTitle, being her first name.
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** ''Julie Of The Wolves''
** ''Julie''



* RapeAsDrama

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* {{Xenofiction}}: Not so much the first two installments, but the last book, ''Julie's Wolf Pack'', certainly qualifies

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Daniel has an unspecified mental disability. His being teased by others for it is what prompts him to try to force himself on Miyax.


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* 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.)
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Miyax names Amaroq's son after her father Kapugen, though she calls him "Kapu" for short.

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* {{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.
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* 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.


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* {{Tuckerization}}: Miyax names Amaroq's son after her father Kapugen, though she calls him "Kapu" for short.
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** 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.

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* AerithAndBob: The family Julie goes to live with in Barrow: Naka, his wife Nusan, and their son ''Daniel''.

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* AerithAndBob: The Inuit family Julie goes to live with in Barrow: Naka, his wife Nusan, and their son ''Daniel''.''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.
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*AerithAndBob: The family Julie goes to live with in Barrow: Naka, his wife Nusan, and their son ''Daniel''.
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The first novel, ''Julie Of The Wolves'' was written by 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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking menstruation]].

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The first novel, ''Julie Of The Wolves'' was written by JeanCraigheadGeorge 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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking menstruation]].
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* AttemptedRape
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sure at the end Julie makes it out of the tundra and is united with a long-lost member of her family, but her surrogate parent is dead, her pet is dead and the Eskimo way of life is over.]]

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* AttemptedRape
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.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sure [[spoiler:Sure, at the end Julie makes it out of the tundra and is united reunited with a her long-lost member of her family, father, but her surrogate parent is dead, her pet is Amaroq and Tornait are both dead and the Eskimo way of life is over.]]



* DisappearedDad: Miyax's father disappears while kayaking and is presumed to be dead. [[spoiler: He's not.]]

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* DisappearedDad: Miyax's father Kapugen disappears while kayaking and is presumed to be dead. [[spoiler: He's not.]]



* NobleWolf: The story is chock full of them, but most notably, Amaroq, the alpha male. This story is about wolves as pack animals complete with language and stuff.

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* NobleWolf: The story is chock full of them, but most notably, Amaroq, the alpha male. This story is about wolves as pack animals complete with their own language and stuff. family customs. Amaroq, the alpha male, is a particularly classic example.



* RaisedByWolves: Miyax is adopted by a wolf pack.

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* RaisedByWolves: Miyax Kind of. She's not raised from infancy, but she is adopted by them as one of their own, at least for a wolf pack.while.



* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Julie's birth name is actually Miyax.
* {{Xenofiction}}: Not so much the first two installments, but the last book, Julie's Wolf Pack, certainly qualifies

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* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Julie's birth Miyax, the name is actually Miyax.
given to Julie at birth.
* {{Xenofiction}}: Not so much the first two installments, but the last book, Julie's ''Julie's Wolf Pack, Pack'', certainly qualifies

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Big Badass Wolf is no longer a trope. It has been replaced by an index for Wolf Tropes


* BigBadassWolf: The story is chock full of them, but most notably, Amaroq, the alpha male.



* NobleWolf: The story is chock full of them, but most notably, Amaroq, the alpha male. This story is about wolves as pack animals complete with language and stuff.



* RaisedByWolves

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* RaisedByWolvesRaisedByWolves: Miyax is adopted by a wolf pack.
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* BittersweetEnding: Sure at the end Julie makes it out of the tundra and is united with a long-lost member of her family, but her surrogate parent is dead, her pet is dead and the Eskimo way of life is over.

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* BittersweetEnding: Sure [[spoiler:Sure at the end Julie makes it out of the tundra and is united with a long-lost member of her family, but her surrogate parent is dead, her pet is dead and the Eskimo way of life is over.]]
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* 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.

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* AnimalTalk: A more realistic version. Wolves, 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.

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