Julie of the Wolves

Julie of the Wolves, written by Jean Craighead George, is about an Eskimo girl named Miyax who's mother died at the age of 4, and her fathers aunt came to take her away from her father Kapugen. Kapugens Aunt wanted to take her and enroll in her in school. As Miyax leaves to live with her Aunt, she becomes Julie. Within a month her father is presumed dead from a hunting trip that he didn't return from. By the age of thirteen Julie had gotten married and was in a bad situation, she wanted to go to San Francisco and meet her pen pal. As she leaves, she states that Julie is gone and Miyax is her name again. She tries to find her way across the Tundra but gets lost and she runs out of supplies. She finds a way to communicate with wolves, and uses knowledge that her father taught her and is accepted into the pack. The leader of the back is skeptical in the beginning but Miyax longs for his acceptance in the pack. She finds the leader, Amaroq, to be her father figure and learns to love the pack. Amaroq is later killed and Miyax situation changes dramatically. But how?
The book have starts with Miyax among the wolves, then it talks about her life as a young girl and the struggles that took place leading up to her running away, the last part is about how she discovers that her father is still alive, but is he who is use to be?
I think that this would be a good book for readers in 5th to 6th grade, who like books about survival and adventure. It would also be a good book to read as a class to discover cultural differences from their own. It will show a reader how life changes and decisions may be hard to make up, like Miyax's decision at the end of the book. The book has a few sketches through the book that help build visuals for the reader as well, the text is detailed and informative enough as well that a good sense of visualization can be created from reading. I would recommend this book as a must have in the classroom.