The Sign of the Beaver: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780395338902)

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.

Author: Elizabeth George Speare
ISBN-10: 0395338905
ISBN-13: 9780395338902
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 04/27/1983
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 138 / Sign of the Beaver

Award: Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction - Winner