The Sign of the Beaver: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

The Sign of the Beaver: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Hardcover

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The Sign of the Beaver: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Hardcover

The Sign of the Beaver: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Hardcover

by Elizabeth George Speare
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by Elizabeth George Speare (Author)

A 1984 Newbery Honor Book

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 protect himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better understand their way of life 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.

Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN
Publication Date: April 27, 1983
Award: Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction (1984)
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Sign of the Beaver
Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 5
ISBN9780395338902
Author Elizabeth George Speare
PublisherClarion Books
GenreChildren and Society & culture
FormatHardcover
PublishedApril 1983
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids and Teens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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 in 1983 for The Sign of the Beaver, and in 1989 she was presented with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her substantial and enduring contribution to children's literature. Of her beginings as a writer working on Witch of Blackbird Pond she said: 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.

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