About this title: In late 18th-century Maine, 12-year-old Matthew is left alone in his family's newly built cabin for several weeks while his father returns to Massachusetts to fetch the entire family. A series of mishaps leads to Matthew's rescue by the chief of the Beaver tribe. Over a period of months, Matthew teaches an Indian boy, Attean, English, while he learns a great deal about hunting. When the tribe plans to travel, Matthew must make the most challenging decision of his life: to join them, or continue waiting for his family to return. A stirring pioneer tale of perseverance and cooperation, this was ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Date Published: 1993
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge wear to sof tocver. Light page tanning from age. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Very Good. 0440479002 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
ISBN-13:9780440800385ISBN:0440800382
Description: Good. 0440800382 Good condition paperback book, some creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, may have corner crease, small edge tear or spine slant, a good book for reading. Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
ISBN-13:9780440800385ISBN:0440800382
Description: Very Good. 0440800382 Great condition paperback book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
"Award-winning historical novelist Elizabeth George Speare's last work is about a thirteen-year-old boy who must survive on his own as he cares for the family's new homestead when his father returns to bring back Matt's mother and siblings. When Matt is stung by a swarm of bees, an Indian chief and his reluctant grandson Attean take care of him. In return for their kindness, Matt agrees to teach Attean to read. As their friendship grows, Matt learns much about how to survive in the wilderness as he waits for his family to return. Speare is a master at her craft."
"I remember reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond as a child, which won Speare a Newberry. This book is a Newberry Honor book and I loved it too. Story of a young boy left alone in the Maine wilderness in the late 18th century. He becomes a man through his friendship with the local natives. Wonderful adventure story that also teaches a lot of important lessons. Perfect for my 10-year-old son."
"In my quest to read some classics and Newbery books that I've never read, I picked this one up. It had a great story, well-developed characters and setting and nice ending (everything I like!). It's suitable for girls or boys but is told from a boy's perspective at age 13 so I think when my son gets older he'll really like it. It teaches a lot of good lessons - faith (in his parents returning), trust (in his newfound friends), courage, responsibility, perseverance, etc."
"one of the best must-have children's books I've met, one of a whole battalion I met through Calvert School's excellent English program. not only providing a wonderful experience of American backwoods pioneer and Red indian life,it's a story of love, loyalty and choices between and to, family and friends. one of the simplest, subtlest books focusing on family ties and affection. Matt is left to look after the cabin he built with his father in the woods, a young boy by himself , while his father leaves to fetch the womenfolk who complete their little family back. Providing his own food, maintaining the cabin and its garden, protecting both it and himself and lasting out through the loneliness of a whole year by himself, Matt, though responsible and mature for his age, makes his own set of mistakes, and is unexpectedly rescued from possible disaster by a tribe of red Indians, in return for teaching the chief's grandson, Attean, how to read. the two boys, so alike and yet so utterly not, struggle through a unlikely, unorthodox friendship that comes through into almost brotherhood...until Matt has to decide between the chance of his own family returning,or certainty with the Indians as his adopted one."
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