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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Language
English
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Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The original construction of the ancient English monument of Stonehenge forms the backdrop of the story of three men, brothers and rivals--Lengar, a bloodthirsty tyrant and patricide; his bastard brother Camaban, a sorcerer whose madness taints Stonehenge with human sacrifice; and Saban, who must reverse the horrors of the past to realize the vision of Stonehenge.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
4) Shaman
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
A saga of life thirty thousand years ago during the Ice Age depicts the lives of the shaman Thorn, an outsider named Elga, and Loon, the next shaman, who is struggling to find his own path in a treacherous and uncertain world.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
Description
Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit.
9) Hominids
Author
Series
Neanderthal parallax volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on Earth.
10) The dog master
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever..."--
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Libros en Español
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Español
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 2/2
Publisher
Maeva
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Ayla travels to a hidden valley where she lives with a herd of steppe horses, and rescues Jondalar, one of the "Others," from certain death.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mare's colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi--The Mammoth Hunters. She has finally found the Others she has been seeking. Though Ayla must learn their different customs and language, she is adopted because of her remarkable hunting ability, singular healing skills, and uncanny fire-making technique. Bringing back the single pup of a lone wolf she has killed, Ayla shows...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning with two orphans, a prehistoric boy and a wolf cub, imagines how the bond between man and wolf might have formed and looks at how it changed through their shared history as wolves became domesticated and diversified into more than 400 breeds of dog.
Author
Series
Mammoth Academy volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As Mammoth Academy spends a term excitedly preparing for its Founder's Fiesta, wild and dangerous animals called humans are spraying the school's gates with graffiti and threatening the students.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel of breathtaking reach and inspired imagination, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark tells the stories of two men who have much in common. What separates them is 42,000 years. Shade lives with his second wife amid their clan on the shores of a bountiful lake. A peaceable man, he knows that when danger threatens, the Hero ancestors will call on him to kill, or sacrifice himself, to save his people. Over 40,000 years later,...
18) The lost world
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ed Malone is persuaded to join the larger-than-life Professor George Edward Challenger on a scientific expedition in the depths of the Amazon. But as the expedition team plunges deeper into the forest, the danger mounts. Now it is up to Ed and the Professor to get out alive.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
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 she...
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Can Shinoni and Keena, two Ice Age teens separated from their tribes, overcome their differences to outwit their pursuer and survive the unforgiving wilds? The climate is changing, game is disappearing, and two peoples of the Ice Age compete for survival in a savage world. Keena, from a powerful band of Neanderthals, and Shinoni, daughter of a Cro-Magnon shaman, are torn from their families by Haken, a ruthless hunter. The girls dislike each other...
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