Touching Spirit Bear

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Summary: Touching spirit bear
Review: "Touching Spirit Bear" is a book about a very angry and abused fifteen year old boy who is facing a prison sentence for attacking and injuring a fellow nineth-grader. While waiting for the courts decision Cole, the boy, was kept in a detention center. During his stay in the detention center he was asked to apply for circle justice. After all of the arrangements were made Cole was sent to live by himself on an island off the coast of Alaska for a year.His stay on the island was cut short by a near death experience that some how made Cole realize what life had to offer and wanted to change. Cole was given a second chance. Cole takes this opportunity and this time and uses it by helping himself and Peter, the boy he beat up. I hope there is a sequeal

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Summary: Great adventurous,action packed book
Review: Cole is a boy who is angery, defiant, smug--in short, and a bully who pushed himself to the limits. He smashed a classmate named, Peter Driscal's head into the sidewalk to the point of brain damage in. Cole would choose any alternative than to spend a long period of time in a small jail cell. One day the Tlingit Indain parole officer named, Garvey, told cole if he really wanted to change then he can try the Circle of justice, and of course cole took the chance. Unfortunatally he took advantage of it and burned supplies down along with trying to escape the Alaskan Island he was stranded/banished on/to. He saw the spirit bear quiet a number a times and tried to kill it but got mauled and as fate was awaiting him/he awaits his fate and all that turns from anger to huility. cole tries later to help Peter get over his fear. Will cole survive and help Peter get over his fear of Cole? Has Cole changed at all?
I enjoyed this book A LOT because its like a cliffhanging kind of book and i couldn't put it down after one chapter to another. This book has pleanty of description to keep you in suspence, seem like you're actually in the book along with the charactors, and its action packed/adventurous. The author gets to the point where you can imagine very clearly how things are, like its right in front of you and you can feel it. Read it yourself; you'll see that you can't put it down for on second. This is a great book for people who like action, a little mystery, cliffhanging, adventurous books.

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Summary: Rachel moseley
Review: Even though I am a girl, this is definately the best book I have ever read. I read a lot so that is a big accomplishment. Cole out first is like one of the people you wish would disapear. At the end he would end up being your best friend. This book is full of sentimental meanings and ways you should live your life. Take the journey with Cole as he becomes a better person through Native Amercian tradition.

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Summary: Touching Spirit Bear
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was really interesting, and it had a lot of description. Touching Spirit Bear was about a young boy named Cole Matthews, who loved to get into trouble. The trouble he got into wasn't minor but major. One day he smashed a fellow student's head against the sidewalk and now that boy could have major braindamage. Now Cole could face jail time or go through a tradition for juvenile delinquents to give them a second chance a life. The tradition is called Circle Justice. If Cole decides to go through with circle justice then he will be deserted to an island for on year to clear his thoughts. In order to find out what desision he picks, I recommend that you should read this book.

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Summary: Touching Spirit Bear
Review: The book that I am reviewing is Touching Spirit Bear and it is about a fifteen year old cole gaets beaten by his father.Just as cole's father was beaten by his father. Now cole himself is turning violent. He robbed a tool store and he got away with it for a couple of days. until peter his classmate told on him so cole beat him and peter was hospitaized. So cole's parents send him to angermangment classes that didn't help so he gets sent to an island in alaska. They give cole a little hut and supples to survive for a month. He goes walking around the island and he see's the spirit bear and think's that he can beat up the bearlike he did peter the bear broke his arm and leg. Then a few days later the two guys come back and find him on the beach and immedalty take him to a hospital and after he recovered they sent him back to the island for another month and survived.

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Summary: Touching Spirit Bear
Review: The title of the book I reviewed was 'touching spirit bear'. I rated this book 5 of 5 because it had a great plot and it told you many lessons. This book is fiction and is an adventure. This book basically goes like this. There is a kid named Cole Mathews, and at school he was a regular bully. Today though he did something he shouldn't have done. He smashed Peter Driscals head into the cement. Now he has to chose between jail or circle justice. He chose circle justice. Now he is on a remote Alaskan island. While he is there he is trying to change his ways. While he is there he is attacked by a strange mysterious bear. Will he recover and find the strength to over come his angry will read it and find out!!

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Review: this book looked cool thats y i read it well not yet at least i just got it and im bored during class thanks for the cool cover

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Review: Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen is a compelling story of a teenager's struggle with anger. He is beaten by his father, ignored by his mother, and struggles to understand how he fits into "family". His anger gets the best of him. He beats a classmate so severely that he has brain damage. This time his father can not buy him out of trouble.
Cole's only hope of avoiding a prison sentence is to enter into an alternative program known as Circle Justice. Banished to an isolated island off the coast of Alaska, Cole secretly vows that he will escape and return to civilization, and beat the system. He didn't plan on the mysterious, legendary white bear. Mauled almost to death, Cole awaits his fate and begins a life long journey of controlling his anger from with in. He learns humility and respect for those he once took his anger out on.
Ben Mikaelsen once again writes for the young reader, speaking to them from life experiences. Touching Spirit Bear calls to those readers who are struggling to find acceptance and respect among their peers.

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Summary: Wow! This book is really amazing!
Review: Touching Spirit Bear is one of the best books I have ever read. It all starts out with a juvenile delinquent who brakes into a store. He was bragging about it in school and a guy named Peter tells on him. After school Peter is badly beaten, he was punched many times and had his head smashed into the concrete. This causes Peter to have brain damage. Then Peter's parents sued Cole for the damage.
Cole isn't a very good kid. He seems to think that everything is below him and he is the dominant person of all the creatures on the earth. Cole really doesn't want to go to jail for the bad things that he has done so he decides to go to the Circle of Trust. The Circle of Trust is a program where instead of going to jail it's a chance for the people to sit and talk about what the person's punishment should be. Cole's and Peter's family went to the Circle of Trust meeting. They decided that Cole's punishment is to go to an island for one year without contact to anyone to find what he really is. He went to the island and as soon as the people who took him out on the island were gone he set the house they had built on fire. His plan was to swim back to the mainland and of on with his life with no one knowing. He soon finds out that it's not that easy and looses all of his energy. He then makes a spear. All of a sudden out of nowhere a huge white bear appears and Cole charges at him, the bear then started to beat Cole up. After the attack Cole lays there with a broken arm, broken hip, and shredded stomach. About a week later people came to bring him supplies, finding Cole lying there almost dead. After a while in the hospital they let Cole go. He wanted to go back to the island because he still didn't want to go to jail. He has to sell all of his belongings to pay for it. Also he has to build his own cabin this time.
If you want to find out what else happens to Cole you have to read the book! I would recommend thins book to anyone. I think the author did a very good job on this book. It doesn't matter if you're a girl or a guy you would both love this book.

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Summary: Touching Spirit Bear
Review: Touching Spirit Bear

Ben Mikaelsen ISBN 0-439-40184-4

Standing all alone on the shore, Cole felt his anger smoldering. Soon it would explode like gunpowder. 15-year-old Cole Matthews is on his way to jail for assaulting a 9th grade boy named Peter Driscal. This was Cole's last strike with the police. Cole either goes to jail or goes through therapy on an Alaskan Island. Cole would do anything to avoid jail so; he chooses to go through the therapy on the island. When at the island, Cole tries to escape and is then mauled by the so-called "Spirit Bear". With his encounter with the spirit bear Cole thinks about life, and that he wanted to change. Then a few days later Cole is rescued, and is rushed into a hospital and then heals. Six months later, he is back on the Island to finish therapy. Find out what happens next in this fictional survival story.
In my opinion, this was my favorite book ever, but you and I might have completely different views, so I am going to try to convince you how good of a book this is, and hopefully you will read this one in a kind book. First of all, it is a great page-turner because Cole is unpredictable with his anger, and the author writes in a way that is cliffhanging. I bet that all of us can connect with Cole in some ways like, how he gets angry, because everyone gets angry. How many of you people liked Outsiders or Hatchet? Well, if you liked both of them, then you likely will enjoy this book. Outsiders had to do with fights, and anger, like Cole in this book, and Hatchet, because Cole has to survive on the Island in Alaska. How many of you guys have read a book and had your mind wander and do not understand a thing? This has happened to me, but not in this book. The author provides details; what the character is thinking, and dialogue, so you will not be lost when they talk about Cole and the story. Finally, yet importantly, I would recommend this book to people who like survival stories. The age group for this story would be about 10 and up to 16. I would not go to young because the story is pretty long and teenager problems wouldn't appeal to younger students. Don't take my word for Touching Spirit Bear, go read it!