Title: Touching Spirit Bear
First published: 2001
Description: 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.
Subjects: Child abuse, Indians of North America, Tlingit Indians, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Anger, Juvenile delinquents, Forgiveness, Rehabilitation, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Children's fiction, Child abuse, fiction, Juvenile delinquency, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Alaska, fiction, Animals, fiction, Literature and fiction, juvenile
Places: Alaska