Ben Mikaelsen
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| Title | : | Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear #1) |
| Author | : | Ben Mikaelsen |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 266 pages |
| Published | : | April 20th 2010 by HarperCollins (first published January 9th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Adventure. Academic. School. Survival |
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Within Cole Matthews lies anger, rage and hate. Cole has been stealing and fighting for years. This time he caught Peter Driscal in the parking lot and smashed his head against the sidewalk. Now, Peter may have permanent brain damage and Cole is in the biggest trouble of his life.Cole is offered Circle Justice: a system based on Native American traditions that attempts to provide healing for the criminal offender, the victim, and the community. With prison as his only alternative, Cole plays along. He says he wants to repent, but in his heart, Cole blames his alcoholic mom, his abusive dad, wimpy Peter (everyone but himself) for his situation.
Cole receives a one-year banishment to a remote Alaskan island. There, he is mauled by a mysterious white bear of Native American legend. Hideously injured, Cole waits for death. His thoughts shift from anger to humility. To survive, he must stop blaming others and take responsibility for his life. Rescuers arrive to save Cole's body, but it is the attack of the Spirit Bear that may save his soul.
Ben Mikaelsen paints a vivid picture of a juvenile offender, examining the roots of his anger without absolving him of responsibility for his actions, and questioning a society in which angry people make victims of their peers and communities. Touching Spirit Bear is a poignant testimonial to the power of a pain that can destroy, or lead to healing.
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| Original Title: | Touching Spirit Bear ASIN B003F1WM8Y |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.harpercollins.com/9780380977444/touching-spirit-bear/ |
| Series: | Spirit Bear #1 |
| Characters: | Edwin, Cole Matthews, Garvey, Peter Driscal |
| Setting: | Alaska(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (2002), Soaring Eagle Book Award (2005), Sunshine State Young Readers Award for Grades 6-8 (2003), California Young Readers Medal for Middle School/Junior High (2003) |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 25069 Users | 3582 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear #1)
I loved this story and can't wait to share it with my students this year! I will also find my boys from last year who struggled to find something "good" to read and demand they read this!This was a brilliant book by Ben Mikaelson. TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR reads like an intelligent adult novel. I loved this story of Native American wisdom and a lost boy trying to find his way.
This is one of those books that I always used to see on the classroom shelf at school, that in hindsight I really wish I had bothered to pick up and read earlier. Touching Spirit Bear is an excellent and insightful coming-of-age tale about a young boy trying to do the right thing. His bad behaviour and bullying has gone too far, and it's severely injured another student. I think that this was especially intriguing; all too often bullies are not featured as main protagonists, nor do we as readers
Ben Mikaelsens novel Touching Spirit Bear is about a 15 year old boy named Cole. Cole is always angry, at his parents, at other people, and about how much he hates his life. He beats up one of his classmates, a boy named Peter, and as a result of this beating, Peter has permanent damage. In an attempt to avoid jail, Cole goes through a program called Circle Justice, which focuses on helping kids instead of sending them to jail. He is sent to an island in Alaska, completely on his own. This is to
Cole, a very generic juvenile delinquent from a very generic abusive family, is generically filled with rage and lies; he appears on course for a life perpetually in and out of prison, but then he gets drawn into the alternative Circle Justice system. Somehow this gets him shipped out to a remote island in Southeast Alaska to be outdoorsy for a year, mostly alone but occasionally visited by Tlingit mentors who disgorge a steady stream of tough love and folksy wisdom. Cole screws up immediately,
I read this book with my students during reading class and they really enjoyed it. I teach students with Intellectual Disabilities that are high school students, but are at an upper elementary reading level. This book was interesting to both my males and my females. One student enjoyed the book so much that she read ahead and finished it and then finished the second book, all by the time the class finished the first book. I enjoyed this book enough that I want to read the second book this summer
Totally a guy book! And so worth your time, guy or girl. Based on the Justice Circles performed by the natives in Alaska, this story involves a young man named Cole. His life is headed south when he violently beats up another young man in a brutal manner. His punishment is bordering a prison or jail sentence when his social worker decides to offer him a chance at redemption... he must be banished to an island for a year and learn to understand himself, others, and the world around him. In his
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