The sign of the beaver /
Elizabeth George Speare.
- New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1984], c1983.
- 135 p ; 20 cm.
"A Yearling book.".
Newbery Medal/Honor. Wilson's Children. Wilson's Junior High School. Book Links (A.L.A.), September 2004. Booklist, February 1998. Child Study Children's Book Committee, November 1997. Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010.
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.
Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction. Friendship--Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction. Indians of North America--Fiction. Survival--Fiction. Friendship--Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction. Native Americans--Maine--Fiction. Survival skills--Fiction.