Julie of the Wolves — Jean Craighead George

Alone and lost -- on the North Slope of Alaska

Miyax, a young Eskimo girl, rebels against a home situation that she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were her brothers. Forced by these circumstances to rethink her Eskimo past, Miyax/Julie begins to see that her future will never be easy.

JULIE OF THE WOLVES is a moving novel for mature readers of a girl's courage and the will to survive in potentially alien worlds.