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    <title>Touching Spirit Bear</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mikaelsen, Ben</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1952-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Scholastic</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued>
    <edition>First Scholastic printing, February 2002 </edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>241 pages :  20 cm </extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Ben Mikaelsen.</note>
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    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <geographic>Alaska</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PZ7.M5926 To 2001</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="21">[Fic]</classification>
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