<Ul> <Li> Children's literature portal </Li> </Ul> <Li> Children's literature portal </Li> <P> The Sign of the Beaver is a children's historical novel by American author Elizabeth George Speare, which has won numerous literary awards . It was published in February 1983, and has become one of her most popular works . </P> <P> The idea for this book came from a factual story that Elizabeth George Speare discovered in Milo, Maine about a young boy who was left alone for a summer in the wilderness and was befriended by a Native American, named Attean, and his grandfather . The novel has been adapted into a television film titled Keeping the Promise . </P>

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