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Beardance
- Paperback
- Author: Will Hobbs
- Publisher: Aladdin
- Release Date: August 2004
- Reading Level: Young Adult
- ISBN-10: 0689870728
- ISBN-13: 9780689870729
- List Price: $5.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummarySaving The Last Grizzlies As this action-packed sequel to Bearstone opens, Cloyd Atcitty and his rancher friend Walter Landis are heading back into the mountains, this time chasing the old man's dream of finding a lost Spanish gold mine. But when Cloyd hears that a mother grizzly and her cubs have been sighted nearby, he immediately hopes it might be the mate of the bear he had tried to save from a hunter the previous summer. When the mother bear dies in a tragic accident, Cloyd realizes that if her cubs don't survive, grizzlies will disappear from Colorado forever. He refuses to leave the cubs, determined to stay with them until they can den. But with winter deepening in the mountains, can Cloyd himself survive? |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Bears dancing
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I think that this is a good book and it won the ALA best book award. It flows well and makes colorful pictures in your mind. The book is easy to follow because it is told from one person's point of view. Because the book is not a page-turner, you can pay more attention to the important details. I connected to Cloyd because the book is told from his point of view and I understood his feelings. I enjoyed the author's style of writing because it is not too descriptive, so it was easy to read. For example "Cloyd felt like he was there, and one of those bears was charging him." Some of the sentences are cliffhangers. An example of one is: "The four of them listened until the sound stopped, and then they turned silently into the night." Some of the book was boring; some of it wasn't. What made some of it boring was that it went on and on in the same scene again and again. I think this story could happen in real life. Historical fiction lovers should only read this book.
Beardance
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Have you ever wondered if there was another world or a spirit world? If you have then you and Cloyd Atcity have something in common. Cloyd Atcity, and Walter Landis are the two main characters.
Will Hobbs is also the author of Bearstone, as well as Beardance and another of adventure tales. Although there are two main characters, there is one the book is focused around and that is Cloyd Atcity. Cloyd is a Ute, and used to not care about anything, but in the last book he changed. He started to do well in school, and helped Walter around the farm. He also used to be extremely stubborn, but now he has lightened up. He has a passion for bears, and so do his people. This story takes place in the mountains of Colorado. Cloyd and Walter both go into the mountains again one last time, Cloyd really wants to find the grizzly bear and cubs that everybody had been talking about. Walter has another case of gold fever and wants to find an ore of gold that was supposedly hidden somewhere in the mountains.
This book is truly a good book. It drew me in and I could really picture it like it was a movie. This is the second book I've read by Will Hobbs and I have enjoyed both. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the mountains and bears.
By: Ryan McGrath
BearDance
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If you like the outdoors, then you will love Beardance. The book takes place in the wilderness of Colorado. The Weminuche Wilderness. When I was reading this book, I was sad, fascinated and surprised. The book had some gory parts in it, that is what made it surprising. Some parts in the book made me fill like I was actually there in the wild with the grizzly bears. The characters remind me of my Grandpa and I because I used to always go camping, when I had the chance, with my grandfather, especially in Colorado. The characters in this book are Cloyd; he's the boy living on a farm with his grandpa. The other character is Walter Ladis, the old guy with the cowboy hat. Irsa is the girl that they call the grizzly woman because she knows a whole lot about grizzly bears. ` He had a sensation that he was moving on four legs.'' When he looked around behind him, he noticed his tracks, and they were bear tracks.'
A must for lovers of the outdoors.
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Will Hobbs has an amazing way of taking the reader inside the book and planting him in the middle of the mountains along with Cloyd. I thought Bearstone was excellent; but it doesn't compare to this one. To think of a young boy devoting his life to keeping the bear cubs alive is awesome. My students loved Far North and will probably love this one even more. I highly recommend all of Hobb's books to my reading students. So far, none of the books have failed to be an instant hit. This one will be the next. I can't wait to read any new ones he writes; he just doesn't write fast enough.
The book is well worth reading any time or any age.
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Beardance is a book you just don't put it down until you finish it. On a scale from 1-5, I would rate this book a four and a half because, it teaches children and adults about things that if you put your mind to something and you have enough determination, you can get anything done. Cloyd goes back to the mountains with the old man to find more grizzly bears in Colorado. He finds two little cuds and the Fish and Wildlife Department take them away. It wasn't easy for Cloyd to try to save them. I admire him for trying to save his little friends. I was reading this book for language arts class and I encourage any student or adult to read Will Hobb's works because they are very interesting and exciting. I recomended this book to anyone who likes grizzly bears or the mountains.
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