Bearstone

The ending of this book will leave you with the warm and fuzzies.......more

Even though I distinctly remember reading this book in sixth grade, I thought I hallucinated it for the longest time. (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 h......more

This is a unique bildungsroman novel. The protagonist, a troubled thirteen year old Ute Indian, is sent to live with a grieving widowed elderly man who at heart is a miner but who has farmed for the last forty years of his life. It doesn't seem like this novel would hold much appeal for middle schoo......more

Bearstone is an awesome adventure novel, about a young, troubled Ute indian named Cloyd Atcitty, and how he was sent away to work on a farm with an old man named Walter Landis. they spend the summer together, and have some ups and downs, but overall they get along. the story takes many unexpected t......more