Emory's gift

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.

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

Places: Idaho

Times: 20th century