The Sign of the Beaver

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The Sign of the Beaver
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First edition
Author Elizabeth George Speare
Country United States
Language English
Genre Children's historical novel
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
February 1983
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audio Book
Pages 135
ISBN 0-395-33890-5
OCLC 9219453
LC Class PZ7.S7376 Si 1983
Preceded by The Prospering

The Sign of the Beaver is a children's historical novel by American author Elizabeth George Speare, which has won numerous literary awards. It was published in February 1983, and has become one of her most popular works.

The idea for this book came from a factual story that Elizabeth George Speare discovered in Milo, Maine[1] about a young boy who was left alone for a summer in the wilderness and was befriended by a Native American, named Attean, and his grandfather.[2]

Plot

The Sign of the Beaver tells the story of a 12-year-old boy, Matt James Halloway, and his father, who, as early settlers, together build a log cabin in the wilderness of 18th-century North America. Matt is left alone to guard the cabin and his family's claim of land while his father heads back east to pick up his mother and sister and bring them back to the cabin. Still alone, Matt gets the help from a Native American named Attean. Attean and his family help Matt survive while being alone. In the book he eventually gets his father's rifle stolen by a stranger named Ben.

Awards

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