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The Sign of the Beaver

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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 give protection to himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better consider their way of living 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.
When his father returns East to collect the rest of the family, 13-year-old Matt is left alone to guard his family’s newly built homestead. Someday, Matt is brutally stung when he robs a bee tree for honey. He returns to consciousness to discover that his many stings have been treated by an old Native American and his grandson. Matt offers his only book as thanks, but the old man instead asks Matt to teach his grandson Attean to read. Both boys are suspicious, but Attean comes every day for his lesson. In the mornings, Matt tries to entice Attean with tales from Robinson Crusoe, even as in the afternoons, Attean teaches Matt about wilderness survival and Native American culture. The boys change into friends in spite of themselves, and their inevitable parting is a moving tribute to the ability of shared experience to conquer prejudice. The Sign of the Beaver was once a Newbery Honor Book; writer Elizabeth Speare has also won the Newbery Medal twice, for The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Bronze Bow. (Ages 12 and older) –Richard Farr

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