Touching Spirit Bear is a fiction book written by Ben Mikensen.The book takes places in Minnieapoles and in Alaska.The main characters are Cole Matthews,cole's mom ,cole's dad,Garvey,Edwin,and Peter.The book is about a kid named cole he is a trouble maker because his dad hits him so he has lots of anger inside him.Cole takes out his anger by bullying Peter Cole smashed peter's head on the sidewalk and caused Peter lots of dameges.cole got sent to a island in Alaska he had to stay on the island for a year.He tried to escape the island but failed.He got attack by the spirit bear and had several injures.Garvey and Edwin found him he went to the hospital for six months then returned to the island to complete his banishment he had to build a new cabin because he burned the other one down after that he bacame nice by getting rid of his anger he soaked in a cold pond in the morning then he carried his ancestor rock up a mountain and then pushed it down. One day Edwin told cole that peter had tired to kill him self cole said bring him to the island.Peter went to the island and was mean to cole peter beat up cole but cole didn't fight back instead he showed him the pond and the rock.At the end peter and cole became friends.