The Sign of the Beaver: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
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Book Info
Author
Speare, Elizabeth George
Word Count
33,750 words
based on page count
Pages
135 pages
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Edition Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Edition Publish Date
2011-08-02
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0547577117
ISBN-13: 9780547577111
Description
A brand-new paperback edition of the Newbery Honor book, with an introduction by Joseph Bruchac.
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.
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