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Authors: Ben Mikaelsen

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TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR
. Copyright © 2001 by Ben Mikaelsen. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952–

Touching Spirit Bear / by Ben Mikaelsen.

p. cm.

Summary: 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.

ISBN 0-380-97744-3—ISBN 0-06-029149-4 (lib. bdg.)

ISBN 0-380-80560-X (pbk.)—ISBN 0-06-073400-0 (pbk.)

[1. Juvenile delinquents—Rehabilitation—Fiction. 2. Anger—Fiction. 3. Forgiveness—Fiction. 4. Child abuse—Fiction. 5. Tlingit Indians—Fiction. 6. Indians of North America—Alaska—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M5926 To 2000 00-040702

[Fic]—dc21 CIP

EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200968-5

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