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 ...
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yearling, New York
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780440479000ISBN:0440479002
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall 0440479002 Paperback Paperback. Until the day his father returned to their cabin in the Maine wilderness twelve-year-old Matt must try to survive on his own. Although Matt is brave, he's not prepared for an attack by swarming bees, and he's astonished when he's rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, Attean.135 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and ... read more
Binding: Audio Cassette
Publisher: Listening Library
Date Published: 2000-02-01
ISBN-13:9780807279755ISBN:0807279757
Description: Very Good. *WITHDRAWN LIBRARY COPY* of this audio book on cassette tape in case with customary markings. Being sold on consignment for the library. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Children's Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780440800385ISBN:0440800382
Description: Very Good. Mass market paperback in very good shape. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Children's Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780440800385ISBN:0440800382
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Children's Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780440800385ISBN:0440800382
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Date Published: 1984-07
ISBN-13:9780440800385ISBN:0440800382
Description: Very Good. Just a hint of browning and very hard to spot shelf wear. Clean and tight. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. 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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