The 1973 Newbery Medalist tells the story of a 13-year-old
Eskimo girl, protected by a wolf pack while lost on the tundra, who
begins to appreciate her heritage.
My father is always talking about how a dog can be very
educational for a boy. This is one reason I got a cat. Dave
Mitchell and his father yell at each other a lot, and whenever the
fighting starts, Dave''s mother gets an asthma attack. That''s when
Dave storms out of the house. Then Dave meets Tom, a strange boy
who helps him rescue Cat. It isn''t long before Cat introduces Dave
to Mary, a wonderful girl from Coney Island. Slowly Dave comes to
see the complexities in people''s lives and to understand himself
and his family a little better.
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Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in a family of naturalists,
Jean George has centered her life around writing and nature. She
attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with degrees in
English and science. In the 1940s she was a member of the White
House press corps and a reporter for the Washington Post. Ms.
George, who has written over 90 books - among them My Side of the
Mountain Dutton, a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, and its sequels On
the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful''s Mountain both Dutton
- also hikes, canoes, and makes sourdough pancakes. In 1991, Ms.
George became the first winner of the School Library Media Section
of the New York Library Association''s Knickerbocker Award for
Juvenile Literature, which was presented to her for the "consistent
superior quality" of her literary works.
Her inspiration for the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the
Wolves evolved from two specific events during a summer she spent
studying wolves and tundra at the Arctic Research Laboratory of
Barrow, Alaska: "One was a small girl walking the vast ad lonesome
tundra outside of Barrow; the other was a magnificent alpha male
wolf, leader of a pack in Denali National Park ... They haunted me
for a year or more, as did the words of one of the scientists at
the lab: ''If there ever was any doubt in my mind that a man could
live with the wolves, it is gone now. The wolves are truly
gentlemen, highly social and affectionate.''"
The mother of three children, Jean George is a grandmother who
has joyfully red to her grandchildren since they were born. Over
the years Jean George has kept 173 pets, not including dogs and
cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild
animals depart in autumn, when the sun changes their behavior and
they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with
us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and
stories."
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