"Grizzly bears and city boys don’t mix well! They are a combination guaranteed to create excitement, adventure, with a dose of terror and uncertainty. Fresh from the big city, thirteen year old Koeye McAllister is banished to a week in the Great Bear Rainforest along the rugged British Columbia coast. He is angry, he is nervous, and he is uncomfortable with an uncle he hardly knows and a region that is foreboding and unforgiving. His fears are intensified on the first day. Koeye experiences a terrifying encounter with a mother grizzly. The adventure continues through five amazing days of discovery. Abundant salmon, scruffy wolves, awkward moose, sassy beavers, dive bombing gulls and a glimpse of the mystical spirit bear of Canada’s west coast combine to create a tale of frustration tinged with awareness and terror counterbalanced by achievement."-- English language edition description.