They were afraid his grandmother wouldn’t make him mind, that she’d let him disappear into the canyons again. Bearstone is an awesome adventure novel, about a young, troubled Ute indian named Cloyd Atcitty, and how he was sent away to work on a farm with an old man named Walter Landis. Side note: I'm revisiting it now because I ran across it on Libby while looking for an audiobook, and this format was wonderful -- narrated by George Guidall, whose voice is definitely more like the elderly Walter's than a boy's, it felt exactly like I was listening to my grandfather tell a story. This isn't a Newberry, but since I've read lots of Newberry books recently, I've come across this theme more than a lot. Cloyd got upset assuming Walter thought he couldn’t do it and he wanted to prove everyone wrong who thought he was lazy.

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I actually hated Cloyd when he begrudged Walter his nice peach trees because they were better than his grandma’s. However, Cloyd eventually persuades Walter to take him into the mountains with and go up to the gold mine. The finding of the title object, Blue Boy the blue roan and their trip to the mountains, Cloyd's ancestry and information about the Ute people, Walter's way of understanding what this troubled boy needs and knowing when to draw him out and when to let him be, and more. He took care of the problem and showed she was actually paying more than she should have over the years.

I n this award-winning adventure set along Colorado's Continental Divide, 14-year-old Cloyd Atcitty is sent to work for an old rancher named Walter.It doesn't seem like this novel would hold much appeal for middle school boys because the challenges of a displaced Native Indian boy may be difficult to understand. He had run away from the Ute group home in Colorado and hitched all the way to Window Rock, Arizona, to find his father. Bearstone is a newly formed firm of Chartered Tax Advisers and Accountants stemmed from its founders’ desire to be the UK’s premier advisers in Private Client Tax. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I have put a review on Google with no response - all I want is acknowledgment of this disaster but nearly 2 weeks later nothing !