11, 000 Years Lost

Hardcover | 16 May 2005 | Edition Number 1

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What does it mean if you die before you were born?
An eleven-year-old Texan girl finds out what it was like to live in the Ice Age in this action-packed time-travel adventure. As Esther participates in an archaeological dig in Texas, she is accidentally transported back in time. Living among the Clovis, the mammoth hunters, she learns of a very different childhood in which play is practice for survival and humans are prey for megafauna, scimitar cats, giant bears, and others. Will she ever get back to her own time?
Peni R. Griffin has delivered her greatest time-travel story yet, a thrill-a-page adventure that's also an affecting look at family and what makes a home. Kids will be riveted by this richly imagined vision of prehistoric North America from a writer whose work has been called expertly plotted ("Kirkus Reviews) and fascinating ("Booklist).
Discoveries of early American artifacts, clues to this little-known time, appear in the news frequently. The detailed bibliography in this book invites young readers toread and, like Esther, make discoveries of their own.

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An 11-year-old finds herself in prehistoric Texas, where family politics are as confusing as the ways to kill a mammoth. Archaeology-mad Esther falls backwards 11,000 years, to a time of climate change and food shortages. The people she encounters think she's from the stars and either love or fear her. With the help of her new family, Esther learns the language and the rudiments of hunting and gathering-but despite her affection for her clan, she wants to go home. Esther's story avoids the common pitfalls of time-travel tales, in which the plucky heroine bestows modern values upon grateful primitives (although she does teach the Heimlich maneuver). Rather than discuss feminism or equality, she uses the clan's reverence of her as the star-child to improve the lot of an outcast girl. Ultimately, prehistoric people are much like modern folk: some lovable, some not so much. Esther's adventures in the messy world of late Ice Age Texas provide a compelling and believable read. Likable characters populate a fully realized world. (author's note, map, bibliography) (Fantasy. 10-14) (Kirkus Reviews)

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