Touching Spirit Bear

About this book

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

Subjects

  • alaska, fiction
  • anger
  • animals, fiction
  • child abuse
  • child abuse, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • forgiveness
  • indians of north america
  • indians of north america, fiction
  • juvenile delinquency, fiction
  • juvenile delinquents
  • juvenile fiction
  • literature and fiction, juvenile
  • reading level-grade 5
  • reading level-grade 6
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9
  • rehabilitation
  • tlingit indians