Seekers: Great Bear Lake By: Erin Hunter PPT By: Kimberly Wong

Lusa, Toklo, Kallik, and Ujurak Main Characters Lusa, Toklo, Kallik, and Ujurak

Toklo Toklo is a large male grizzly bear. He is usually grumpy and aggressive towards other bears but cares very much about his traveling companions. He and his mother were separated but he assumed she had abandoned him and he will not listen to anyone who tries to talk about his mother. He was born purely in the wild and has not encountered many flat faces.

Lusa Lusa is a small, female, black bear. She is very friendly but Toklo thinks she has bees in her brain. She was born in captivity in the Bear Bowl. She seems very brave for traveling with bears much larger than her. She is also a wonderful tree climber and she seems like she can just run straight up the trunk of the tree.

Kallik Kallik is the largest one in the foursome. She is a large, kind, polar bear who had never even dreamed of black and brown bears in her life. She is very nice but can be shy. Her mother was killed by an orca when she was very young and she was not ever properly taught how to hunt.

Ujurak Ujurak is a very unusual bear. Lusa, Kallik, and Toklo sometimes aren’t even sure he is a bear. He is a weird bear that has the power to read signs given to him by the spirits. He can also shape shift into any animate object. Although, he is usually always a grizzly bear. He is very nice and invites anyone with them on their journey to the Last Great Wilderness.

Setting The foursome take journeys through flat face dens, dark forests, open meadows, and foggy marshes. They are trying to reach the Last Great Wilderness, a place where all bears can live together in harmony. There is enough food, shelter, and land for every bear at the Last Great Wilderness. Toklo, Lusa, Kallik, and Ujurak are not only on a journey to the Last Great Wilderness and Everlasting Ice, but on a magical adventure of friendship.

Conflict The bears are in a struggle against rights and starvation. They must battle with rival bears for territory and fight over food for the sake of their lives. There are many troubles throughout the book including injuries, separation, and starvation.

Climax I think that the climax of the book is when all three bears meet up and start their journey. Since this book is part of a series, the climax is mostly the end of this book and the beginning of Seekers: Smoke Mountain. All the bears meet up when Taquiq and a gang of misunderstanding male polar bears go to sabotage the black bear territory.

Resolution Toklo, Kallik, Lusa, and Ujurak win the fight against the gang of white bears and continue their journey to the Last Great Wilderness. They are wounded and Toklo is still uneasy about Kallik. They all proceed to the Last Great Wilderness and Everlasting Ice together.

Plot Young black bear Lusa has left the comfort of the zoo, determined to make her way in the wild. It is there that she encounters grizzly cub Toklo and a mysterious changing bear named Ujurak. Together, the cubs find themselves on a journey toward a mystical place, The Last Great Wilderness. Meanwhile, separated from her family, polar bear cub Kallik trusts her persistence to lead her on a path traveled by many other bears before her. At last, the four cubs meet at Great Bear Lake, a place where bears gather to celebrate the longest day. But all is not peaceful. Danger lurks beneath the calm surface of the lake, challenging them to the wildest experience of their lives.

Opinion/Recommendation This book is certainly a book for all ages. It is very exciting and good for adventurous readers. If you like to get really involved in books and cry when a character is hurt and jump for joy when the have succeeded, this is the book for you! This book was very good, indeed. It was very lovely. Erin Hunter is a wonderful author, as I have read many of his wonderful adventure novels from animal’s points of view.