Emory's gift

By W. Bruce Cameron

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Grief, Bears, Family life, fiction, Human-animal relationships, Grizzly bear, Families, Large type books, Junior high schools, Idaho, fiction, Bereavement, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Human-animal relationships, fiction, Bears, fiction, Grief, fiction, History, Grizzly bears, Schools, Family life

Description: In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.