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 the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps and a reporter for the Washington Post. She attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with degrees in English and science.
and raised in a family of naturalists, Jean George has centered her life around writing and nature.
Seller Inventory # 37458īorn in Washington, D.C. It's suitable for readers of any age, and I recommend it highly. If you're as sentimental as I am about babies of any species, you may find some of the brutally honest passages it contains hard to read but without that honesty, this would not be the thoughtful tale that it is.
But what is the eventual outcome of that rescue? And just how much do Julie's teachers really know about wolves, and how much do they assume incorrectly? In this third volume of Craighead George's trilogy, Julie comes of age as a sort of Jane Goodall of Alaskan wolves. Julie learned their language during her time among them, and the friendships she formed then remain strong enough so she can rescue two famine-born pups who would otherwise starve to death as their mother's milk fails to sustain them. Wolves, like humans, are social animals who communicate verbally as well as in other ways. Among the challenges Kapu faces: Raw Bones, a former alpha from another pack who wants desperately (and tries repeatedly) to seize leadership for himself Ice Blink, a female who carries the deadly rabies virus and famine caused by caribou herds that fail to migrate south through the Avlik Pack's territory. While Julie formally studies the subjects that will enable her to live on the tundra and study her wolves first-hand, as her life's work, the pack's new alpha wolf learns to fill his dead father's role despite his extreme youth for bearing that responsibility. So has Julie, who's grown up enough now to plan marriage to her beloved Peter, an Inuit from Siberia. The wolf pack that saved the life of a human girl, Julie Edwards (Miyax Kapugen), has seen many changes since her return to her human family. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. DJ price unclipped, but does show a crease to the front flap crease to front end paper (apparently a production flaw) price intact. Book shows binding square and secure text clean. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both Book and DJ show only minute indications of use.
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