When Tyler Duvall arrives in Alaska for his dream vacation, He finds that his Uncle Jake is seriously ill and that he has to share Jake's cabin with two other kids. Jake goes fishing when he disturbs a rogue grizzly bear, who follows him back to his uncle's cabin.
Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950) is an American writer of more than 140 young-adult and middle grade novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S. Rue. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Strasser)