The sign of the beaver / Elizabeth George Speare.
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]
- Copyright: ©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. |
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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.
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- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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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 | - |
The Sign of the Beaver
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Summary
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?