Overview

After a ferocious beast attacks a small Alaskan village, a mysterious shaman helps a courageous teenage boy prepare to defeat it. A classic hero-journey story like The Lord of the Rings where the smallest and seemingly weakest among us overcomes obstacles even the biggest and strongest could not. A kind of The Sword in the Stone meets Rambo adventure story, this spellbinding Native American campfire tale proves that every culture has its heroes.

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Original, exceptional, thought-provoking, and a fully engaging read from cover to cover, ""The Beast in the Dark"" is a deftly crafted novel by John Smelcer. It is an especially, unreservedly recommended pick for elementary school, middle school, and community/public library Action/Adventure Fiction collections for young readers ages 8-12. It should be noted for personal reading lists that this paperback edition of ""The Beast in the Dark"" from Epicenter Press is also readily available in a digital book format. Midwest Book Review

Author Information

John Smelcer is a member of Ahtna Native Corporation. Throughout the mid-to-late 1990s, Dr. Smelcer was the tribally-appointed Executive Director of the Ahtna Heritage Foundation. Hailed as ""Alaska's modern day Jack London,"" John Smelcer has published over sixty books, including The Raven and the Totem, his best-selling collection of Alaska Native myths and legends. His writing appears in almost a thousand magazines worldwide. As a boy, John sat around campfires in his Native village listening to elders tell traditional stories like this one.

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