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Summary: The Best Book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is an awsome book by Elizabeth George Speare. It is a exciting book that talks about the past. It's a combination of white man and Indians. Matt, a boy, lives on his own while his father is away. He meets the Beaver Tribe and becomes good friends with them. Then, one day the tribe asked Matt if he wanted to move north with them. Should Matt abandon his family.
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Summary: (...) SIGH OF THE BEAVER
Review: This book inspiard me to be brave and not give up. I have not looked at life the same way.I took my life more serios.This isthe book that will teach you a good leasen.So that's why I like this book.
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Summary: An exciting historical fiction adventure story
Review: "The Sign of the Beaver" has been required reading for 5th grade students in our school district for over a decade, and it is one of the required titles that all the students--boys and girls--seem to read with pleasure. Since our 5th grade social studies curriculum covers the settlement and colonial period of American history, this story about Matt's family homesteading in woods of Maine during this period fits in perfectly.While "The Sign of the Beaver" is an outstanding piece of historical fiction, it is also an exciting adventure story in the tradition of books like "My Side of the Mountain," "Hatchet," and "Island of the Blue Dolphins." It's been many years since I first read "The Sign of the Beaver," so I decided to listen to the audio-book on 2 cassettes, read by actor Greg Schaffert. Schaffert does a great job of moving this adventure along at a swift pace, and bringing the main characters to life. As one young reviewer wrote here, this story makes a great read-aloud, and listening to the tapes would be an excellent option for students, or for teachers to play for an entire class. Through Matt's friendship with Attean and his grandfather, chief of the Beaver clan, he learns to survive while his father goes to retrieve his mother and sister to bring them back to the cabin they built. Matt agrees to teach Attean how to read after they save him from life-threatening bee stings. In the end, Matt learns more from his native friend, than Attean does from him. While it is true that white people unfairly took land from the Indians, and this is a story that needs to be told, there were some subliminal messages I didn't notice the first time I read this book. Although Matt has two books in his cabin, "Robinson Crusoe" and the Bible, he mainly sees the Bible as a bunch of exciting stories, and not as a source for his religion. So, while the Bible is not connected to any sense of spirituality, much is said about the ceremonial life of Attean's tribe, and more specifically about his spirit quest for his manitou. So this book implies that Native American ways and spirituality are superior to the white man's ways and religion. This is just a small observation, in an otherwise excellent book. It's an exciting historical fiction adventure that students are bound to enjoy. It would work both within the context of studying early American history, or as part of a study on Native American life. As another student reviewer wrote here, this book leaves many unanswered questions, so it's an excellent springboard to learning more about Indians in the past.
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Summary: A Great Outdoor Adventure
Review: The Sign of the Beaver is about a boy named Matt who has to stay and take care of a cabin. Here's his story. One summer day Matt's Dad packed up and left Matt to take care of the cabin. Matt watched his Dad go and had a knot in his stomach. That night he went to sleep very quickly. The next morning he decided to go get some honey because he needed it. He went to a beehive and he climbed up and looked in but bees started to buzz around his head and sting him so he jumped into a river and when he came up he saw to Indians! They helped him out and dried him off. They brought him back to his house and then they left. A little bit later a man knocked on the door. The man's name was Ben and he wanted some food. Matt got him some food. Matt accidentally fell asleep and Ben stole the guns! Since Matt now had no guns to hunt with, one of the Indians that helped him named Attean taught him how to make snares. Matt caught lots and lots of game and managed to survive. One day Attean wanted to learn how to read Robinson Caruso. Matt taught him how to read. One day Attean didn't come because he was very upset because he had to move to a different village. Attean was mad because he loved Matt and called him "brother." One day Attean asked Matt to move with him. Mat refused to go, so Attean left without him. Later that week when it was snowing his family came back. His baby sister only lived for five days in the harsh weather. They all eventually got over their grief for the baby and had a good long life and lived very well. Matt taught his family the Indian ways. More Information about the book The main character's name is Matt. He is a very good hunter and is the oldest child in a family of five. He has blond-brown hair and blue eyes. He is twelve and very smart. Matt also has an Indian friend named Attean who taught Matt many great Indian ways to survive independently. Matt is home schooled except when he has to live on his own while his family is away. The setting of this book is in a forest. It also has an Indian village nearby and two water supplies. One is a river and the other is a lake. It has many different type of wildlife that Matt can hunt. There are many different natural setting that are surrounding his cabin. I loved this book because it was full of adventure. I couldn't put the book down because I always wanted to "see around the next bend." The whole book was fun and exciting. The author really has a great way of making the story come to life. I'm going to read her other book, The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Both of her books have won Newbury Awards.
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Summary: Read this book!!!
Review: I think you should read this book because it is filled with adventure. If you like the outdoors this is the book for you. It is about a boy named Matt that gets left alone in a cabin and becomes friendly with an Indian boy named Attean. They have lots of adventures along the way. They go fishing and hunting and even kill a bear. When Attean has to leave the village they ask Matt to go with them but he decides to wait for his parents to come back. Read the book if you want to find out what happens to Matt.
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Summary: The Sign of the Beaver, By: Elizabeth George Speare
Review: The Sign of the Beaver was a pretty good book. I liked the fact that it was about someone clse to my age.Alot of exciting things happened that made me want to keep reading.Once I started to read I didn't want to stop. On a scale of 1-10 I would rate it a 9, beacause like I said it is about a kid like me. The reason it isn't a 10 is because I sometimes felt like i couldn't wait for the book to end. I guess I got boredof soe of the things that happened. Overall it is a good book that if I had to I would read again.
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Summary: Learn about the smart Native Americans
Review: This is a good book because it teaches you about history of the Native Americans and it also teaches you about different tribe's of the Native Americans. You also learn about how the Native Americans survived in the wild. In this book the end of the chapters were very interesting and I couldn't stop reading until I finished.
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Summary: Review of Sign of the Beaver
Review: This book was a really good book it makes you want to read chapter after chapter it is a really interesting book with intence parts. Some of the parts have lots of details,Though some of the parts have writting errors. This book contains a lot of history in it too. But some parts are exaggurated. This book takes place in the woods where some Native Americans lived. I really like this book although the ending was sort of sad. But I will tell you this is a really good book. To the author I suggest you fix the typing error.
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Summary: A book that you should read
Review: This book is an amazing book that you would want to read more about. This book does have a bad ending, though the middle section, which is the most important part, is good. Once you start to read this book, you can never stop. A lot of the questions in the book remain unsolved. A huge part of <Sign of the Beaver> is a review of the book <Robinson Crusoe>. This would make you think back to that book and you would see how much Robinson Crusoe have on that desert island. Joseph Han
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Summary: The Sign of the Beaver
Review: Although he faced his responsibility bravely,thirteen-year-old Matt was more than a little scared when his dad left him alone in the wilderness to guard their newly built cabin in the wilderness. When a renefade white stranger stole his gun, Matt knew he had no way to shoot game and no way to protect himself. It was only after meeting Attean when he started learning how ot survive in the wilderness all by hiself. Then later on he got to meet and understand the Beaver clan of the land across the big creek. So then on out until his parents came he Matt was able to survive in the wilderness all at his lonesome. The main reason why I rate this book 5* is because of Elizabeth G. Speare's breath taking writing style. But duh she s the authour of the award Newbery Award for both "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" And "The Bronze Bow." I mean her and Gary Paulsen are the two greatest writters ever especally compared to those long "Harry Potter" books.
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