Sign of the Beaver

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.

subjects: Frontier and pioneer life,  Indians of North America,  Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  Survival skills,  Wilderness survival,  Newbery Honor Book,  Friendship,  Survival,  History,  General,  Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction,  Spanish: Grades 4-7,  Newbery Honor,  Children's fiction,  Frontier and pioneer life, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Indians of north america, fiction,  Survival, fiction,  Maine, fiction,  Large type books,  Stories,  Newbery Medal,  Children's literature,  Study and teaching (Primary),  Reading (Primary),  Language arts (Primary),  Creative activities and seat work,  Lecture (Enseignement primaire),  Arts du langage (Primaire)