The Bear

CLAIRE CAMERON

THE BEAR by claire cameron (fiction) heart-stopping, heart-wrenching, harrowing story of unlikely survival in a harsh wilderness + brilliantly nails the voice of the brave, bright, endearing 5-year-old narrator = 👍🏻
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“I look at Daddy’s broken paddle on land and worry drips into my heart. I don’t see Daddy. Momma said to take Stick in the canoe and wait. A little puddle of black sits in my heart too and I know Momma said to wait. I am supposed to get Stick in the canoe and wait and now I am going back. I am bad. I want to be good girl and Daddy will come back again and my family will be four.
‘Wanna go for a ride, Stick?’
‘Yep.’
I am a good girl.”
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“I still cry and Momma says that she knows we have hard things and she has hard things too. But she says that...if you go past the things that are hard you can be so so strong.”
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