Paperback, 154 pages
English language
Published Aug. 24, 2004 by Aladdin.
Bearstone
by Will Hobbs
3 stars
(1 review)
A DRAMATIC TALE OF GRIZZLIES AND GOLD Fourteen-year-old Cloyd Atcitty has been skipping school for years. He's run away from a group home for Native American boys, and is now being sent to work for Walter Landis, an old rancher on an isolated Colorado farm. In a cave above the ranch, Cloyd finds a turquoise carving of a bear. Knowing that his people, the Utes, have a special relationship with bears, he keeps the small stone, hoping it will bring him strength. A terrible blow-up with Walter ends in near disaster, but the old man offers Cloyd one last chance: They'll ride together into the mountains to reopen Walter's abandoned gold mine. Among the high peaks that harbor Colorado's last grizzlies, Cloyd's courage and loyalty will be tested to the limit.
Subjects
- Social Issues - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- People & Places - United States
- Indians of North America
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
- Ute Indians
- People & Places - United States - Native American
- Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States
- Fiction