"The Sign of the Beaver" by Elizabeth George Speare is one of her many classics. It is about a boy named Matt, who is left to protect the house as his family leaves so his mother can have a baby. But soon enough things take a bad turn when somebody takes his gun, and a bear spills all his flour! The only thing he can find to eat is fish, until some Indians find him.
Soon enough, he befriends the Indians, as Attean, the head chief's grandon, shows him how to hunt. Eventually, they invite him to join them as they go to a different hunting ground, never to return again. With great difficulty, he rejects the offer, behaving with responsibility to his family, who is late coming back and he isn't even sure if they are going to come back.
Attean leaves him his beloved dog as a sign of them being Indian brothers. And then not too long before Christmas Matt's family comes back, and everything is resolved.
I thought the book had too short of chapters for my liking, but was a good book and is worth reading.
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