Novel Talk: A Teachers' Guide to White Grizzly, developed by Jeanette (Jet) Haberkorn for use with White Grizzly by Mary Peace Finley.

Jeanette "Jet" Haberkorn has taught public middle and high school for the past 25 years while also doing a five-year stint as an instructor at the University of Colorado. She has presented at the Western Regional Middle School Conferences and the Courage to Rick Conferences for years, and has been a break-out leader with the NASA Teachers in Space program.

Novel Talk: A Teacher's Guide for White Grizzly is her first book. If was inspired by the need for age appropriate teacher materials for novels popular with upper elementary students. Jet is available for staff development in reading, writing, and grammar. She can be reached at 719-598-2653.

White Grizzly is a coming-of-age adventure novel set on the Santa Fe Trail in l845 amid pending war between Mexico and the United States. Mexican-raised Julio Montoya travels the Trail from Bent's Fort to Independence, Missouri, in search of his Anglo grandfather. On his journey, Julio is attacked by a grizzly, treated by a Cheyenne healer, left to die by Texas freebooters, captured by the Pawnee, and protected by a powerful spirit.

White Grizzly was a 2001 finalist for the Colorado Book Award and for the Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction Benjamin Franklin Award.

White Grizzly was awarded the 2001 EVVY Award for best YA book by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association.