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Title: A Bone From a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson ISBN: 0-440-21928-0 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: maginatve topic
Comment: Vinny has convinced her mother to let her spend summer vacation with her father in Africa. Her father, Sam, is working in an archeological site in Africa without much success. Vinny comes and accidentaly matches a pair of broken skull and Dr. Hamiska, the leader of the site, begins to call her his lucky charm . Dr. Hamiska takes her to a site without much incident and Vinny finds something that wil change history and the world view of human evolution. Millions of years earlier, in the same place a small girl in-between ape and human begins to open her mind. She lives in a Sea-ape tribe accustomed to life on the beach. Her name is Li and gradually her mind is opening up to the world around her. A large current of problems makes the tribe look to her for help and her decision will forever change the future of humanity. A Bone From A Dry Sea is an interesting view into the world of paleontology and the cornerstone of evolution from ape to human. The author chose a unique way of writing by telling the story of these two girls in separate worlds by alternating chapters. Every chapter alternates between past and present. You begin to notice that what happens in the past world is repeated in the present. For example, a male begins to battle the dominant male for power and the same kind of battle for dominance occurs with Dr. Hamiska and Vinny's father. Which goes to show that some things never change.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Bone From A Dry Sea
Comment: I had to read the book "A Bone From A Dry Sea" for school and since no one else in my group wanted to read it, I ended up reading it and loving it. The book tells about the adventures of "Li" a girl who lived in Africa 4 million years ago and the story also talks about the life of a girl named "Vinny" who discovers the remains of a dolphin's shoulder blade and who also discovered some of Li's life when she visited her father in Africa.
Rating: 2
Summary: Interesting ideas about our ancestors...
Comment: There are really two, very parallel, stories told in this book, and they are only separated by a couple of million years. In the present, a young teenager named Vinny has convinced her mother to let her spend summer vacation with her father in Africa. Her father, Sam, is working in an archeological site in Africa without much success. Vinny turns out to be his good luck charm. Flip back to the past and we see a teenager called Li that is half-ape, half-human that thinks way beyond her time. Each chapter goes back and forth between past and present. A couple of times I was lost in the paleontology talk and the present storyline was a bit boring, but I liked the author's way of describing the past storyline.
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Title: Maroo of the Winter Caves by Ann Turnbull ISBN: 0395547954 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Dar and the Spear Thrower by Marjorie Cowley ISBN: 039579725X Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 18 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Kin by Peter Dickinson, Peter Dickson, Ian P. Andrew ISBN: 0142501204 Publisher: Firebird Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson ISBN: 0385729219 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel ISBN: 0698113772 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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