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The Sign of the Beaver
The Sign of the Beaver
Product #:
0440479002
Description:
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. One day, 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 each day for his lesson. In the mornings, Matt tries to entice Attean with tales from
Robinson Crusoe
, while in the afternoons, Attean teaches Matt about wilderness survival and Native American culture. The boys become friends in spite of themselves, and their inevitable parting is a moving tribute to the ability of shared experience to overcome prejudice.
The Sign of the Beaver
was a Newbery Honor Book; author 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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