num_pages: 208
description: A powerfully suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack.While camping with her family on a remote island five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear 300 pounds of fury is attacking the family's campsite pouncing on her parents as prey.At her dying mother's faint urging Anna manages to get her brother into the family's canoe and paddle away. But when the canoe dumps the two children on the edge of the woods and the sister and brother must battle hunger the elements and a dangerous wilderness we see Anna's heartbreaking love for her family -- and her struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore.Told in the honest raw voice of five-year-old Anna this is a riveting story of love courage and survival.
language: English
title: The Bear
publisher: Little, Brown and Company