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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate. But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face the coming winter storms, Girl realizes...
Author
Series
Wolf chronicles (Dorothy Hearst) volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
She-wolf Kaala struggles with the consequences of forming the first mixed wolf-human pack.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The Paleo Diet will work wonders. Dr. Loren Cordain demonstrates how, by eating your fill of satisfying and delicious lean meats and fish, fresh fruits, snacks, and non-starchy vegetables, you can lose weight and prevent and treat heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, and many other illnesses. Breakthrough nutrition program based on eating the foods we were genetically designed to eat-lean meats and fish and other foods that made...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Cavemice volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor Geronimo Stiltonoot is back in another prehistoric adventure. Geronimo Stiltonoot and his family are off to find a cure for Grandma Ratrock's aches and pains. She's heard that a remedy hides in a legendary valley, and Geronimo isn't even sure it exists. Little does he know that getting there will be an adventure among geysers, volcanoes, and rivers of molten lava.
11) Dave's cave
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dave loves his cave. Inside is decorated EXACTLY the way he likes it. Outside there is a lovely spot for a fire and the grass is always lovely and green. But, Dave is unhappy. What if there might be an even better cave out there? And off he sets in search of a new home. But it turns out that good caves are hard to find. They're either too small, or too big, or too full of bats, until he finds one that looks MUCH more promising. Outside has the perfect...
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"A dazzling investigation back to the origins of the human being to get the woman out of the cave. No, prehistoric women did not spend their days sweeping the cave and taking care of the children while they waited for the men to return from hunting. They also chased large mammals, made tools and jewelry, built houses and explored forms of symbolic expression Archaeological evidence shows that Neanderthal women used spears, DNA analysis shows that...
17) Stone age boy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 30
Publisher
Modern Library, Random House Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A conclusion to the series featuring Dekanawida the Peacemaker finds the growing League of the Great Law of Peace threatened by marauding warriors from the People of the Mountain, who Dekanawida urges to join the League to save their shared world.
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