Madeline Island Bear

Have you ever seen a bear up close? In my book, Madeline Island Bear, we cousins create a day of mischief that leads to unsettling times. It is a light, sad, and funny story including a chapter on my family dog and descriptions of cousin relationships. I tell this novella from the point of view of a young child through adolescence to my wedding at twenty. This is primarily nonfiction, describing my childhood growing up with my parents on Madeline Island in the summers. Fiction is interspersed in