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Violence
Barely any
A bear kills members of a family (depicted after the fact); Brian hunts the bear
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Grief for people killed by wildlife; the moral complexity of hunting a predator
What this book is about
Brian Robeson, who has returned to civilization but finds he can't stay, goes back to the Canadian wilderness and discovers that a bear has killed members of a Native family he befriended. He sets out to track the bear. Paulsen's shortest Brian book is a meditation on the relationship between predator and hunted, and Brian's identity as someone who belongs in the wild more than in the civilized world.
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Off-page killing of characters by a bear
Hunting depicted
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