11,000 Years Lost - Softcover

Griffin, Peni R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810992515 ISBN 13: 9780810992511

Publisher: Amulet Books, 2006

Synopsis

A vivid, exhilarating peek at our prehistoric past, now available in paperback

This action-packed, fully-imagined time travel book takes a young Texan girl, participating in an archaeological dig, back to the time of the mammoth. There Esther is adopted by a group of mammoth hunters, who teach her to forage for food, make clothes, build fires, and protect herself from the megafauna who roam the land-scimitar cats, panthers, and more. Even as she grows attached to her new family and proud of her many skills, Esther searches for a way home.

Praise for 11,000 Years Lost

A Texas Bluebonnet Award suggested read for 2006-2007

"A vivid and engrossing picture of Pleistocene society...Griffin draws on her careful research to invent the past with a specificity beyond an archaeologist's wildest dreams."--Archaeology Magazine

"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." --Kirkus

"An exciting peek into the distant past." --Booklist

"A unique, superior contribution to speculative adventure fiction, Ether's survival story is an emotionally satisfying, well-crafted read."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

About this title

About the Author

Peni R. Griffin has written many award-winning novels for middle-grade and young-adult readers, including The Ghost Sitter, an Edgar Award finalist and a William Allen White Award winner. She lives with her husband in San Antonio, Texas.

From School Library Journal

Grade 5-7–This uneven time-travel novel features archaeology-loving Esther, an 11-year-old living in Texas. She spends much of her summer vacation hanging out at a dig near her school. She becomes friends with the scientists who work at the site and is often of help to them. When she unknowingly walks through a simmering light among some trees, she is transported back 11,000 years. Esther is quickly taken in by a small clan of nomads, some of whom believe she brings good luck. Quickly enough, she learns their language and customs and travels along as they search for food, hunt for mammoth, and attend a large clan gathering, all the while searching for a portal back to modern times. The strong point of this novel is Griffin's research, which is clearly thorough. Unfortunately, her attempt to educate readers is at the expense of plot and character development. Conflicts arise from time to time as not all clan members believe Esther is good luck, but the group often settles problems calmly and she is never abandoned. The personalities of the prehistoric people never move beyond being either good or bad. Esther's time in the past drags on for many months and climaxes when she teaches the clan to line dance as a means of conflict resolution. A strictly additional purchase for those libraries in need of prehistoric fiction.–Karen T. Bilton, Somerset County Library, Bridgewater, NJ
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About this edition

• Publisher: Amulet Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810992515
• ISBN 13: 9780810992511
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336