Speare, Elizabeth George.

The sign of the beaver / Elizabeth George Speare. - Boston : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2011. - 135 pages ; 20 cm.

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.

Newbery Honor book.

9780395338902 (hbk.) 0395338905 (hbk.) 9780547577111 (pbk.) 0547577117 (pbk.) 9780606235471 0606235477 9781451720907 1451720904 9780440479000

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Frontier and pioneer life--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION--Action & Adventure--Survival Stories.
JUVENILE FICTION--Boys & Men.
JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--United States.
JUVENILE FICTION--People & Places--Native American.--United States
JUVENILE FICTION--Social Themes--Friendship.
JUVENILE FICTION--Social Themes--Values & Virtues.


Maine--History--1775-1865--Juvenile fiction.


Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.