Touching Spirit Bear Research Paper

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Ghost of Spirit Bear is a great ending to the book Touching Spirit Bear. Touching Spirit Bear has a cliffhanger at the end and leaves you wondering, what happens next? Ghost of Spirit Bear continues the story and finishes it with a great ending.
In Touching Spirit Bear you learn that you need to forgive yourself, not blame things on others and control your anger. Then in Ghost of Spirit Bear you learn you need to not fight others with your fists but fight them with your hearts. So, both books have different lessons that help the characters learn kindness. In both books when they give lots of advice for the characters they are also teaching us lessons for our daily lives. “‘There are times you fight with your fists, that's called violence...And

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