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Who could touch a spirit bear and live? And what is the reality of living? This is a powerful YA novel recommended to me by a 7th grade English teacher who uses it in her classroom. The story is about Cole, an angry bully whose misdeeds send him into exile on an Alaskan island for a year. This is a Native American tradition.
What Cole learns on that island is life changing. Most importantly, how does one deal with anger? For Cole it is an overpowering force that leads him to do unspeakably horrib ...more
What Cole learns on that island is life changing. Most importantly, how does one deal with anger? For Cole it is an overpowering force that leads him to do unspeakably horrib ...more
I read this book while I was babysitting (picked it up off the preteen's shelf) and it was an okay read. There's a definite value system/moral to the story, but the writing itself is a bit boring.
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Jun 06, 2015
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
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