Touching Spirit Bear /
Ben Mikaelsen.
- First Scholastic printing, February 2002
- New York : Scholastic, 2001
- 241 pages : 20 cm
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.
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Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--Fiction. Anger--Fiction. Forgiveness--Fiction. Child abuse--Fiction. Tlingit Indians--Fiction. Indians of North America--Alaska--Fiction.