The sign of the beaver
By: Elizabeth George Speare.
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780440479000
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.; Indians of North America -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Friendship -- Fiction.; Indians of North America -- Stories.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Stories.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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. Until the day his father returns to their cabinnbsp in the Maine wilderness, twelve-year-old Matt must try to survive on his own. Although Matt is brave he's not prepared for an attack by swarming bees and he's astonished when he's rescued by an Indiann chief and his grandson, Attean. As the oys come to know each other Attean learns to speak English while Matt becomes a skilled hunter. Though many months have passed, there's no sign of Matt's family. Then Attean asks Matt to join the Beaver tribe and move north. Should Matt abandon his hopes of ever seeing his family again and move on to a new life?