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Ben Mikaelsen

Ben Mikaelsen has won the International Reading Association Award and the Western Writers Golden Spur Award. His novels have won critical acclaim, as well as several state reader's choice awards. These novels include Rescue Josh McGuire, Sparrow Hawk Red, Stranded, Countdown, Petey, and Touching Spirit Bear. His newest book is "Jungle of Bones". Ben's articles and photos appear in numerous magazines around the world. Ben and his wife, Connie, live in a log cabin near Bozeman, Montana, and they adopted a 700-pound black bear that they raised for 27 years.

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Website: www.benmikaelsen.com

Ben Mikaelsen's Books

Stranded (new cover) [Paperback] [2010] Reprint Ed. Ben Mikaelsen - Ben Mikaelsen

Ghost of Spirit Bear, Narrated By Jason Harris, 3 Cds [Complete & Unabridged Audio Work] - Ben Mikaelsen

By Ben Mikaelsen Stranded (new cover) (Reprint) [Paperback] - Ben Mikaelsen

Stranded by Mikaelsen, Ben [Disney-Hyperion, 2010] Paperback [Paperback] - Mikaelsen

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Karen's books rated it

5 years ago

text Don't let anyone tell you this one isn't as good as the first...

... Read it and decide for yourself. It was not my intention to read this sequel to Touching Spirit Bear, which I really liked. I was satisfied with how that story had "ended". This book was checked out FOR me and I thought, 'Okay, maybe I'll get around to it...' Well, now I'm really glad I finally...

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Momster Bookworm rated it

10 years ago

text Ghost of Spirit Bear

This is the sequel to 'Touching Spirit Bear' in which a teenager was 'banished' to Alaska, as part of a Native American tribal practice, to serve out a sentence for beating up a fellow student. While there, he learned about anger management, responsibility, accountability and making restitution. In ...

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Mike Mullin, Author rated it

11 years ago

text So Good I Bought It

I checked this book out from my library after someone at one of my author talks raved about it. I enjoyed it so much that I bought my own copy today--I'm certain that I'll reread it. It contains one of the best passages demonstrating the use of description of setting to convey emotion--what MFA'ers ...

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The Reading Perusals of Rose Summers rated it

13 years ago

text Touching Spirit Bear

"Touching Spirit Bear" is a wonderful coming of age/redemptive story of a 15-year-old boy whose anger issues flare up out of control. Cole has had more than several "last chances" to turn his behavior around. Coming from the home of an abusive father and a mother who seems to turn a blind eye, Col...

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Nutti's muses rated it

15 years ago

text Tree Girl

Gabriela is a very bright Indio peasant living in Guatemala. She is the top Spanish speaker at her village school. She is a content well adjusted child who is going to have her quinceanera. She has earned the name Tree Girl for her love of climbing trees. However, war is coming to Guatemala. Th...

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