TY - BOOK AU - Speare,Elizabeth George TI - The sign of the beaver SN - 9780547577111 (pbk.) PY - 2011/// CY - Boston PB - Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Fiction KW - Indians of North America KW - Survival KW - Friendship KW - Maine KW - History KW - 1775-1865 N2 - 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 ER -