The day Of The Bear,Nancy Spofford, Hardcover. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Ex-library good condition

Andy could hardly wait till morning. Tomorrow was a day he had waited for a long, long time, the day when he was old enough to go with his father and his uncles on the bear hunt. Andy was disappointed when he learned that he was just going along on the hunt, that he would not be allowed to handle a gun. "How old do you reckon I'll have to be to shoot?" he asked, and his father answered, "Got more to do with how you act."

A hunting trip was not all fun and excitement and adventure, Andy found. There was work to do--peeling potatoes, gathering wood, hauling water, washing dishes. A hunter slept on hard ground and froze in the cold air before sunup. Hunting was waiting and waiting and waiting some more and being quiet so as not to alert the game.

But there were moments of excitement and danger, and one moment brought a chance to do a hunter's job. And there was one other moment with a chance to do a man's job, something that made Andy's father say, "You made me a proud man today."

An exciting, well-written, and perceptive story of today, set in the cattlelands of central Florida.

Ages 10-14.