Sign of the Beaver

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Book Information

Category
Historical Fiction
Publisher
HMH Books for Young Readers 2011 (First published 1983)(Originally published 1983)
Year Published
2011
Curriculum
Social Studies Curriculum
  • 08-10 Middle Readers
  • 11-13 Older Readers
  • Historical Fiction

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.--from the publisher

135 pages          978-0547577111           Ages 9-13

Keywords:  historical fiction, coming of age, gun, Native American, respecting others, survival, 9 year old, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, 13 year old

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