11,000 Years Lost

11,000 Years Lost

A vivid, exhilarating peek at our prehistoric past, now available in paperback<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>Praise for <I>11,000 Years Lost</I><BR><BR>A Texas Bluebonnet Award suggested read for 2006-2007<BR><BR> "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."--<I>Archaeology Magazine</I> <BR><BR>"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." --<I>Kirkus</I><BR><BR> "An exciting peek into the distant past." --<I>Booklist</I><BR><BR>"A unique, superior contribution to speculative adventure fiction, Ether's survival story is an emotionally satisfying, well-crafted read."--<I>The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</I>