The sign of the beaver

Resource Information

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Label

The sign of the beaver

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth George Speare

Creator

• Speare, Elizabeth George

Subject

• Survival -- Fiction
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
• Indians of North America -- Stories
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Stories
• Indians of North America -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

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. Until the day his father returns to their cabinnbsp in the Maine wilderness, twelve-year-old Matt must try to survive on his own. Although Matt is brave he's not prepared for an attack by swarming bees and he's astonished when he's rescued by an Indiann chief and his grandson, Attean. As the oys come to know each other Attean learns to speak English while Matt becomes a skilled hunter. Though many months have passed, there's no sign of Matt's family. Then Attean asks Matt to join the Beaver tribe and move north. Should Matt abandon his hopes of ever seeing his family again and move on to a new life?

Cataloging source

GZX

Dewey number

Fic

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.S7376

LC item number

Si 1984

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

juvenile