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The sign of the beaver / Elizabeth George Speare.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2011.Description: 135 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780395338902
  • 0395338905
  • 9780547577111
  • 0547577117
  • 9781451720907
  • 1451720904
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 1984.
Summary: Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Speare Elizabet Available 33111008491892
Total holds: 0

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A 1984 Newbery Honor Book



Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better understand their way of life and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the changing frontier.

Elizabeth George Speare's Newbery Honor-winning survival story is filled with wonderful detail about living in the wilderness and the relationships that formed between settlers and natives in the 1700s. Now with an introduction by Joseph Bruchac.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Newbery Honor Book, 1984.

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