Touching Spirit Bear Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Ben Mikaelsen
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
886

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen Book Summary

In his Nautilus Award-winning classic Touching Spirit Bear, author Ben Mikaelson delivers a powerful coming-of-age story of a boy who must overcome the effects that violence has had on his life.

After severely injuring Peter Driscal in an empty parking lot, mischief-maker Cole Matthews is in major trouble. But instead of jail time, Cole is given another option: attend Circle Justice, an alternative program that sends juvenile offenders to a remote Alaskan Island to focus on changing their ways. Desperate to avoid prison, Cole fakes humility and agrees to go.

While there, Cole is mauled by a mysterious white bear and left for dead. Thoughts of his abusive parents, helpless Peter, and his own anger cause him to examine his actions and seek redemption—from the spirit bear that attacked him, from his victims, and, most importantly, from himself.

Ben Mikaelsen paints a vivid picture of a juvenile offender, examining the roots of his anger without absolving him of responsibility for his actions, and questioning a society in which angry people make victims of their peers and communities. Touching Spirit Bear is a poignant testimonial to the power of a pain that can destroy, or lead to healing.

A strong choice for independent reading, sharing in the classroom, homeschooling, and book groups.

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Book Name Touching Spirit Bear
Genre Animal Fiction for Kids
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 715.7 KB

Touching Spirit Bear (Ben Mikaelsen) Book Reviews 2024

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Amazing book. All I can say is that this book is amazing I really enjoyed it and will probably read it again sometime soon! I recommend you read it!

AMAZING!!!!. I use to HATE reading but then when we had to read this book at school I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE BOOK!!!! This book made me start reading books daily!! I SOOOOOOOO RECOMEND THIS BOOOK TO ANYONE!!!! IT'S AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!:-) ❤

It was good.... I had read this for class, but I enjoyed most of it.

Yeet. Is good book

Great message!. Great story, what it teaches and the way it’s written!

Touching Spirit Bear. Owned this book for some school project from a while back. Its a great book. Reread it in just a few days. ( not much of reader so that a BIG accomplishment

I loved it. It's a very good book I actually read this in school and I always read ahead. Now I'm reading the ghost of spirit bear in class and I love that book as well good job at creating these books you have done an excellent job 👌

Me. Love it best a

Love it. This book is amazing. I gave it a try and i don't even like books. Great storyline and keeps you wanting to read more.

Great book!. I read this on paperback! Very good!

its okk. my teachers making me read this book,and i hate it so much in the begging but then now im starting to like it!:)

I don't like to read... but. This book is my favorite book! It is really good!

Thought I wouldn't like it..... We read this book in language arts and I thought wouldn't like it because it seems that when teachers choose books they are not that good but I absolutely love this book!!!! I even got the second book called the ghost of spirit bear! YAY FOR MY TEACHER!!!😀

Awesome book, man!!'. My teacher made me read this and I thought it would be dum but it's not. One thing though, why does it say Alex Driscal in the description? It's Peter Driscal

Review. There're is a lot of action, but if you could make a book out of this novel. It's a good book and I like it but you could make a series out if it.

Touching spirit bear. I haven't read this book yet, but it looks really good!

Touching spirit bear. This was a great book that symbolizes the meaning of anger ans forgiveness

Amazing Book😍. Our class was reading this book along with listening to the recording. This book is amazing. I just bought the sequel and I'm glad I can finally read it whenever I want to ☺️

Book. I love this book. I have read it multiple times. It never gets old.

A nominee for most under appreciated book. Marvelous read 10/10👍👍👍😊

:)))))). My teacher made us read this book and I'm in love with it being a 15 year old boy I tend to not like books and I have dyslexia I've also read the sequel ghost of sprit bare and it made me get tears of joy (but then I took a arrow to the nee)

Great book, but summary needs work. I'm reading the book for a class project, and I love it!! The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars, is the summary. It was mostly accurate exept for the fact that the boy's name is PETER. Not ALEX. The capitalization is on the wrong letters, and the punctuation is wrong all throuought the summary. Other than that, GREAT BOOK. I suggest you buy it.

Predictable. This was a terrible book about a annoying protagonist who nearly murders a kid, then goes a year in a remote Alaskan island instead of jail time and then sees a wrong in his ways causing him to change for the better. It leads to an ending that I thought was way too predictable.

An amazing story that encourages reflection on life.. I

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!. My teacher is making us read this in class in seventh grade and I absolutely hate it! My teacher loves it though we lie to her about how much we love it but we don't. We've never even heard of this book before. I must sound like a trouble maker right now but it was some way to tell the world that kids have strong opinions too. But I guess I have to read it I don't want to get in trouble I've never been in trouble at school before. So just thought you'd like to know my opinion. Thanks for reading this long paragraph! :)))))))

Touching SpiritBear -My response. The reason I love this book is because it shows real life situations and problems. Like misunderstood kids, parents who were raised by complete maniacs. Getting drunk just because your scared of being afraid. This stuff happens in life, this book showed me that I can help people like that become better people. When Cole is attacked by the spirit bear I thought of the pain, and to me that would feel like failing 5 quizzes and being attacked by a bear. Heh. So as I said this book shows a lot of reality and what it would be like to have parents I MEAN A LIFE like Cole Matthews.

Touching Spirit Bear. This book is awful im five teen years old and it don't make sense

more than expected. the title won’t seem like much but contains an extreme meaning. 100% recommend this book 💕 what i loved about most was animals being included in this and how amazing this book can be if you really connect to it. the author really put in a lot of work to make this book unforgettable, and how he and his wife adopted a bear, amazingly remarkable. looking forward to adopt a bear myself ☺️💕

Good. I love it

AMAZING. awesome book!!!!!!!!! I love it I had to read it for the summer I thought it would be boring but its great it even changed me. i recommend reading this if you have a terrible attitude this changed me so hopefully it will change you. my whole class loved this book please read it

Good title. I found this book a long time ago for a book report, I finally re-read it again after a few years, I found it just as good as the first time. :)

Touching Spirit Bear. I utilized this story as a tool to assist with Anger Management issues in my Native American approach to Wellness course. It was well received.

One if the best!!!!. I have never read a book this good!!!!it literally sucked me into the story like I was an acctual carracter of the book!!!

I love this book. I suggest this book to read at anytime possible it is full of surprises. My favorite part is when Cole gets a second chance I did gag when he bit of the mouses head but otherwise I loved it so so so much

Book. This book was interesting

so far so good. i like alot my teacher recommemded it 4 me:))))))))))))

Amazing Book!. This book was so good and so inspirational!!! One of the best books I have ever read and I would really recommend reading Touching Spirit Bear

Touching spirit bear. This book is so good. I was disappointed with the ending though.

Great and deep book. I read this book at school and was immediately hooked I couldn't stop reading it

I love this book. Great book, would strongly recommend.

Wonderful Read. I was sad the book ended. It kept attention and I didn't want to stop reading.

5 Stars. In my opinion, this is a very wise book, it teaches multiple lessons, I would definitely recommend 11+ because of the vocabulary, overall its a great book and I very well enjoyed it.

Reading. I am actually reading this book in school, its very good!

Such a good book so far. I love the meaning! I’m just reading it and it’s really good cause it shows a guy dealing with problem and calming down! Good book :)

Awesome book. It's an awesome book I love it it has so many real life situations in it and considering the fact that it has bullying in it makes it sad but the ending pays off for it..........JUST SAYIN'

Differs from paper copy. In the paper copy version it is peter driscal not alex driscal

Absolutely Amazing. I’ve just started reading and the book is so good it’s not even funny. Very interesting storyline.

Super good book second favorite. I’m reading this book for school and so far it’s really good and I think the best part is every suspenseful part of the book which is most of the book so just wanna say I really love the book and hope I get to read the next one

Read it!!!!!!. So in school we are reading this book I thought I wouldn't like it but now I'm reading ahead of the class im already about 50 pages ahead Of them it is a really good book about a boy who needs to stop blaming others and start blaming himself for his mistakes

A must read. This was a great book. It started off slow and gave me time to question what was going on then when things started you band it all fell in place, idk, it was just an amazing read. You gain a new perspective on life from this book. I read hundreds of books but this one stood out the most. To the author, I thank you.

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Touching Spirit Bear. This book has a lot of ups and downs, flips and turns. Every time you have to put the book away you just wonder what’s going to be next, what will they do next.

Awesome. Man, this book reminds me so much of this book called holes by Louis sachar. Similar type of book. Both very good. Worth the money.

Elisabeth napiorkowski. I’m reading this book as a class right now we are on chapter 17 but I couldn’t stay away so I bought it on here and I just finished it I got to say Cole reminds me of me and the bad decisions I’ve made and this book has taught me so much and that I shouldn’t get trouble and that I just should learn to forgive myself and others and that it’s important to keep calm and not get angry at little things that are stupid just reading this book has given me a life lesson and I’m so so glad that my teacher introduced me to this book

WOW. this is personally my favorite book of all time!!!!

Great book!. a great book it deserves more attention to public

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Summary of Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

The Touching Spirit Bear book written by Ben Mikaelsen was published on 20 April 2010, Tuesday in the Animal Fiction for Kids category. A total of 886 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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