Elizabeth George Speare: Sign of the Beaver (2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
English language
Published Aug. 30, 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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.
I remember this book from childhood. It was still pretty good to reread it as an adult.
This was a sweet book for teaching empathy, it is about a boy of ten or so in recently settled Maine who is left alone in a desolate cabin for a summer while his dad runs an errand.. he befriends a few Indians and they help him survive, and he learns that his own people are, of course, not so very nice to the natives.
