The Sign of the Beaver
by Speare, Elizabeth George
Lost/AbandonedBoston Globe/Horn Book Award/HonorsNewbery HonorChristopher AwardScott O'Dell AwardWildernessIndigenous PeoplesWheatley Aligned Supplemental Texts
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AR Book Level
4.9
AR Points
5
Word Count
32,818
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
138 EN
About this book
A boy in Maine, rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, must decide whether to spend the winter alone in the woods waiting for his family or move on to a new life with his new friends. The plot contains racial prejudice within historical context.