{"id":17494,"date":"2012-10-05T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=17494"},"modified":"2012-10-02T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:12:47","slug":"banned-books-week-julie-and-the-wolves-by-jean-craighead-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/banned-books-week-julie-and-the-wolves-by-jean-craighead-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week: Julie and the Wolves by Jean Craighead George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=julie%20of%20the%20wolves%20craighead&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=MP&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/julieofthewolves200x293.jpg?resize=200%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>This classic children&#8217;s novel has been weathering the storm of censorship and controversy for 4 decades now. Jean Craighead George won the 1973 Newbery Medal for her novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=julie%20of%20the%20wolves%20craighead&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=MP&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Julie of the Wolves<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which tells the story of a Yupik Eskimo girl called Miyax (Julie to her pen pal in San Francisco) who survives alone on the Arctic tundra by communicating with a wolf pack. The outside world has wrought changes on Julie&#8217;s culture, and when she is forced to choose between an arranged marriage and a harsh, desperate flight across the wild tundra, she runs away. She eventually learns the language of the wolves and becomes a member of the pack, a process that&#8217;s terrifying and exhilarating in equal measure.<\/p>\n<p>Julie&#8217;s journey of survival and self discovery has resonated with young and old readers since its publication in the seventies, despite being challenged for including violence and being &#8220;unsuited to age group.&#8221;\u00a0To learn more about this book, censorship, and Banned Books Week, check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek\" target=\"_blank\">the ALA Banned Books Week website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This classic children&#8217;s novel has been weathering the storm of censorship and controversy for 4 decades now. Jean Craighead George won the 1973 Newbery Medal for her novel, Julie of the Wolves, which tells the story of a Yupik Eskimo girl called Miyax (Julie to her pen pal in San<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/banned-books-week-julie-and-the-wolves-by-jean-craighead-george\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[475,1355,831,1811,782,2101],"class_list":["post-17494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-adventure","tag-banned-books","tag-banned-books-week","tag-childrens-books","tag-classics","tag-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4ya","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494\/revisions\/17572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}