Julie of the Wolves

 Julie of the Wolves

By Jean Craighead George

a beautiful love story trapped

between wildness and barricaded-

from-Nature civilization

an Eskimo girl raised in the old ways

is lost in vast tundra featureless

and the same

as she looks in all directions

starving, she studies the interactions

between the wolves in a small pact

mimicking their ways of intimate communication

until she is accepted

as one of them

but hunters are human, and kill

for sport

her very humanness brings peril

to this family of beings that

have saved her