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The sign of the beaver / Elizabeth George Speare.

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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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0440479002
  • Physical Description: 135 pages ; 19 cm paper
  • Publisher: New York : Dell, [1983]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
770L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.9 5 138.
Awards Note:
Newbery Honor Book, 1984.
Subject: Frontier and pioneer life > Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America > Juvenile fiction.
Survival > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 7 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 2 copies available at Reynolds County Library District.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Reynolds County Library - Bunker Library J SPE (Text) 3247100450974 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Reynolds County Library - Ellington Library J SPE (Text) 3247100488694 Juvenile Fiction In transit -

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The Sign of the Beaver
The Sign of the Beaver
by Speare, Elizabeth George
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The Sign of the Beaver


Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the family to their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indian chief's grandson, he is invited to join the Beaver tribe and move north. Should Matt abandon his hopes of ever seeing his family again and go on to a new life?

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