TY - BOOK AU - Speare,Elizabeth George TI - The sign of the beaver SN - 0440479002 U1 - [Fic] 20 PY - 1984///], c1983 CY - New York PB - Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers KW - Indians of North America KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Friendship KW - Fiction KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Survival KW - sears KW - Native Americans KW - Maine KW - Survival skills N1 - "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; 5.7; Follett Library Resources; 5-8; 5-8; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 ER -