Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
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Interested in the healing power of the wilderness, the psychology of a bully, and alternatives to the juvenile justice system? Do you just want a good cliffhanger featuring a giant white bear?Touching Spirit Bear gives us the point of view of Cole Mathews, an angry young man who blames everyone else for his problems and comes at the world with a chip on his shoulder that’s the size of a boulder. When his penchant for violence causes real damage to Peter, a vulnerable classmate, Cole is faced with severe consequences. Enter Garvey, a Tlingit Indian parole officer, who proposes “Circle Justice” for Cole, a practice that involves being banished to a remote Alaskan island for a year. This proposal sets a series of events in motion that kept me spellbound. Cole’s sneering attitude gets old, and for awhile I felt the same as Garvey and Edwin (Cole’s other mentor) when they want to give up on Cole, but I’m glad I stuck with it. The ending is well worth it.
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I thought that it got a little old how Cole sat there for three chapters after being attacked by the bear but the book turned out to be great. Just get past the beginning.
I thought that the book was great it showed even if your in a really bad situations and have made a lot of bad choices in your life its not to late to learn a new way and help the people you have harmed to help them find thier way back. I really liked how no matter how frusterated Cole got he didn’t give up on peter and kept trying to fix what he messed up.