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Will Hobbs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0153003685 ISBN 13: 9780153003684

Publisher: Harcourt College Pub, 1993

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Cloyd was trouble. Trouble to himself and everyone else. He'd grown up without his parents, without schooling, half-wild and alone in remote Utah canyons. Sent by his tribe to a group home for Indian boys, his feeling of isolation turns to desperation - and even more trouble.

But high in the majestic mountains of Colorado where Cloyd is taken to live with an old rancher, he finds a small carved turquoise bear in an Indian burial cave. Secretly renaming himself Lone Bear, Cloyd calls upon the strength of his ancient ancestors - first to do battle with his own hostilities, but finally to discover the magic power of an old man's love, and the secrets of living in a world he has just begun to understand.

An IRA/CBC Teachers Choices book
Notable Children's Trade Book in the field of Social Studies
Mountain & Plains Bookseller Association Children's Book Award

About this title

About the Author:

Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of nineteen novels, including Far North, Crossing the Wire, and Take Me to the River.

Never Say Die began with the author's eleven-day raft trip in 2003 down the Firth River on the north slope of Canada's Yukon Territory. Ever since, Will has been closely following what scientists and Native hunters are reporting about climate change in the Arctic. When the first grolar bear turned up in the Canadian Arctic, he began to imagine one in a story set on the Firth River.

A graduate of Stanford University, Will lives with his wife, Jean, in Durango, Colorado.

Review:

"A highly appealing story" -- -Booklist

"A must purchase!" -- -Voya

"Powerful ... far above other coming-of-age stories" -- School Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt College Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0153003685
• ISBN 13: 9780153003684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154