The Sign of the Beaver cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.9
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 32818
Points per Word 0.000152
Page Count 144
Points per Page 0.034722

Description

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.