TY - BOOK AU - Speare,Elizabeth George TI - The sign of the beaver SN - 9780395338902 (hbk.) PY - 2011/// CY - Boston PB - Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Indians of North America KW - Survival KW - Friendship KW - JUVENILE FICTION KW - Action & Adventure KW - Survival Stories KW - Boys & Men KW - Historical KW - United States KW - People & Places KW - Native American KW - Social Themes KW - Values & Virtues KW - Maine KW - History KW - 1775-1865 KW - Historical fiction KW - Action and adventure fiction N2 - 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 ER -