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  • Moon Bear

  • By: Gill Lewis
  • Narrated by: John Voce
  • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary

Twelve-year-old Tam ventures into a moon bear den in the mountains of Northern Laos on a dare. His goal is to steal the cub and sell it, making a fortune for his family. But the mother bear’s unexpected return upends Tam’s plan, and he barely escapes with his life. Then his life implodes anyway, as his entire mountain village is forced to relocate to make room for a new highway. Lured by the promise of electricity, running water and a television, Tam’s people move to an overcrowded village, and Tam’s father is killed by a stray landmine.

Now the family breadwinner, Tam is forced to work hundreds of miles away in the city of Laos, at a moon bear farm where bile from bear gall bladders is used for medicine. It is a cruel, miserable place, and when a familiar face – the very cub he’d seen in the den in Vietnam – is sold to the bear farm, Tam knows he must save this moon bear, no matter what it takes.
©2013 Gill Lewis (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing
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Critic reviews

'Lewis cements her position as a major children's writer with a powerful new wildlife novel about the South-East Asian bear trade. Highly recommended.' (Bookseller)
'Gill Lewis'[s] eye-opening account of bear farming is utterly chilling.' (The Guardian)
'There is sufficient Laotian history and culture woven in to provide an authentic, intriguing setting, along with just the right measure of suspense.' (Kirkus Reviews)

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It was a great story, well written educational based facts, and real believable characters 

I really Liked all of it a lot well done very good reading as well

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