The Sign of the Beaver

The Sign of the BeaverA 1984 Newbery Honor Book Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen year old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better understand their way of life and their growing problem in adapting to

A 1984 Newbery Honor Book

Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better understand their way of life and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the changing frontier.

Elizabeth George Speare's Newbery Honor-winning survival story is filled with wonderful detail about living in the wilderness and the relationships that formed between settlers and natives in the 1700s. Now with an introduction by Joseph Bruchac.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 04/27/1983
ISBN: 9780395338902
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
Award: Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction - Winner
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 138 / Sign of the Beaver
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 5