--• Prehistoric Times •--

Auel, Jean - The Clan of the Cave Bear (468 pages) - Orphaned Ayla struggles to fit in and survive in the period when Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals existed at the same time on the Earth. 

Brennan, J. H. - Shiva: an Adventure of the Ice Age (181 pages) - A Cro-Magnon tribe is forced to confront its collective fear of the Neanderthal people they call ogres, when a young girl of the tribe, Shiva, befriends an ogre boy, and when Hiram, a young hunter from the tribe, is captured by ogres.

Brennan, J. H. - Shiva Accused (275 pages) is the sequel. Dickinson, Peter - A Bone from a Dry Sea (199 pages) - Vinny is spending the summer with her archaeologist father on a dig in Africa. Alternate chapters describe the life of a tribe of sea apes who, according to a controversial theory of evolution, may have been the direct predecessors of our human ancestors.

Wolf, Joan - Reindeer Hunters (368 pages) - Refusing to marry a man from an enemy tribe in order to establish peace, Norakamo chief's daughter Alane finds that she is unable to resist the remarkable Nardo and realizes that her marriage must succeed if either tribe is to survive.

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