A Bone From a Dry Sea
Two parallel stories present a young prehistoric female who is instrumental in advancing her people and a modern-day girl who joins her father, a paleontologist, in discovering important fossil remains in Africa. Reprint. AB. NYT. SLJ. H.
Two parallel stories present a young prehistoric female who is instrumental in advancing her people and a modern-day girl who joins her father, a paleontologist, in discovering important fossil remains in Africa. Reprint. AB. NYT. SLJ. H.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440219286 (0440219280)
ASIN: 0440219280
Publish date: 1995-05-01
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Africa,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Anthropology,
Fiction,
Historical
All I remember was this was slow, and as my history teacher said when she assigned summer reading, "I feel bad for requiring this book but it is important to our class, so that's why I assigned Ender's Game as well." We all enjoyed Ender's Game more.
Peter Dickinson is one of the authors I might never have discovered if not for Readerville. All of his work for adults and YA is excellent, but not flashy. There's something very quiet about his style. The author isn't at all intrusive.This particular story is remarkable for the way it manages to i...
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