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The Sign of the Beaver

by Elizabeth George Speare

Cover of The Sign of the Beaver
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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.

Frontier and pioneer lifeIndians of North AmericaJuvenile fictionFictionSurvival skillsWilderness survivalNewbery Honor BookFriendshipSurvivalHistoryGeneralChildren's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction