bearstone Author:Will Hobbs fourteen-year-old Cloyd Atcitty has een skipping school for years. He's run away from a group home for Native American boys, and is now being sent to work for Walter Landis, an old rancher on an isolated Colorado farm. In a cave aboce the ranch, Cloyd finds a turquoise carving of a bear. Knowing that his people, the Utes, have a special relation... more »ship with the bears, he keeps the small stone hoping it will bring him strength, A terrible blow-up with Walter ends in near disaster, but the old man offers Cloyd one last chance. They'll ride together into the mountains to reopen Walters abandoned gold mine. Among the high peaks that harbor colorado's last grizzlies, Cloyds courage and loyality will be tested to the limit« less