The Sign of the Beaver

✍ Scribed by Speare, Elizabeth George

• Book ID: 108640443
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0395338905

✦ Synopsis

1984 Newbery Honor

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 knows he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. Only after meeting the proud, resourceful Indian boy Attean does Matt begin to understand the way of the Beaver clan and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the changing frontier.

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.