Book 1

Touching Spirit Bear

by Ben Mikaelsen

Published 9 January 2001
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

Book 2

Ghost of Spirit Bear

by Ben Mikaelsen

Published 17 June 2008
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.

After a year in exile on an Alaskan island for beating a student, Cole returns to Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim. But he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is harder than surviving in the wilderness.