
And if he can't send money home, how will his family survive? When a sick cub arrives at the farm, Tam secretly nurses it back to health and they develop an unbreakable bond. He hates seeing the cruel way the bears are treated, but speaking up will mean losing his job.

When twelve-year-old Tam is sent to work at a bear farm in the city, he has never felt so alone. Read this great book and join the fight to save the bears.' Even in the last few pages my heart fell and rose again with the final events. Here's a taster.' Gill Lewis writes in an exciting style keeping the reader hanging on to every twist and turn of the adventure. In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for Moon Beara small number of our readers were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Tam’s integrity and courage as he takes himself and the bear cub to safety is a powerful, touching and attitude changing story. Tam does everything he can to protect the bears and when a young cub is brought in he knows he must take desperate action to save him. The bears are viciously treated and wickedly milked for their bile which is believed to have curative powers. Tam has no idea of the appalling cruelty he is about to witness. Sent away from everything he knows, he is given a job in a bear farm. Tam’s world implodes when his father in killed by a mine.


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