A young boy living 15,000 years ago in southeastern France is initiated into manhood by his clan and sets off on a journey to trade his valuable fire rocks for an ivory spear thrower. A fast-paced, truly interesting coming-of-age novel based on a lit...
Near the end of the Stone Age, nearly 12,000 years ago, a young woman named Anooka discovers her talent for shaping the strange riverbed mud into small animal figures, but when she is forbidden to make the animals, she questions the only traditions s...
A brother and sister's search for a new life and new home . . .
5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa's father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At four...
Fourteen-year-old Jared finds it hard to fit in. Half-Native American and half-Anglo, he lives with his hard-working mother and aunt in Seattle, Washington, where he spends his after-school hours selling Pacific Northwest Indian artifacts from his...