Monday, November 30, 2009

The Polar Bear Son

Retold by Lydia Dabcovich
Lexile: 470
Genre: Traditional Literature (An Inuit Tale)

This is a story of an old Eskimo woman who adopts a polar bear who turns out to be a fantastic hunter. She is blessed to have the bear in her life and shares all of the food that he provides for her. But, other hunters get jealous and create a plot to kill the bear. The village children overhear the plot and rush to tell the woman before it is too late.

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