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The sign of the beaver

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Speare, Elizabeth George
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1983.
Subjects:	Indigenous peoples > America > Juvenile fiction. Frontier and pioneer life > Juvenile fiction. Survival > Juvenile fiction. Friendship > Juvenile fiction. Newbery honor book. Historical fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	135 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0395338905 9780395338902 9780547577111 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	I was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1908. I have lived all my life in New England, and though I love to travel I can't imagine ever calling any other place on earth home. Since I can't remember a time when I didn't intend to write, it is hard to explain why I took so long getting around to it in earnest. But the years seemed to go by very quickly. In 1936 I married Alden Speare and came to Connecticut. Not till both children were in junior high did I find time at last tosit down quietly with a pencil and paper. I turned naturally to the things which had filled my days and thoughts and began to write magazine articles about family living. Then one day I stumbled on a true story from New England history with a character who seemed to me an ideal heroine. Though I had my first historical novel almost by accident it soon proved to be an absorbing hobby." Elizabeth George Speare (1908-1994) won the 1959 Newbery Medal for THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND, and the 1962 Newbery Medal for THE BRONZE BOW. She also received a Newbery Honor Award in 1983, and in 1989 she was presented with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her substantial and enduring contribution to children's literature."