Touching Spirit Bear

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Label

Touching Spirit Bear

Statement of responsibility

by Ben Mikaelsen

Creator

• trueMikaelsen, Ben, 1952-
• Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952-

Subject

• trueChild abuse victims
• Anger -- Fiction
• trueAnger in teenage boys
• Child abuse -- Fiction
• trueComing-of-age stories
• trueFifteen-year-old boys
• trueForgiveness
• Forgiveness -- Fiction
• trueIndians of North America -- Alaska
• Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Fiction
• trueJuvenile delinquents (Boys)
• trueJuvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation
• Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueSelf-fulfillment
• trueSelf-fulfillment in teenage boys
• trueSurvival stories
• trueTeenage boys
• trueTlingit Indians
• Tlingit Indians -- Fiction
• trueWilderness survival
• trueAdventure stories
• trueAlaska

Genre

• trueSurvival stories
• trueRealistic fiction
• Fiction
• trueComing-of-age stories
• trueAdventure stories

Language

eng

Summary

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

Theme

• trueBrand new you

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueEmotionally intense

Character

• trueFlawed

Award

• Beehive Young Adult Book Award (Utah), 2003.
• California Young Reader Medal, Middle School, 2003.
• Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota) for Juvenile Fiction, 2002.
• Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High, 2004.
• Golden Sower Award (Nebraska), Young Adult, 2004.
• Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division II (Grades 6-8), 2004.
• Soaring Eagle Book Award (Wyoming), 2006.
• Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Florida), 2004.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2002

Awards note

Eliot Rosewater nominee, 2005-2006

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

670

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.M5926

LC item number

To 2001

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730

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 12

Target audience

pre adolescent