Prehistoric Times

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.
• Shiva Accused (275 pages) is the sequel.

Brooke, William J. - A is for Aarrgh! (249 pages) Mog, a young boy living during the Stone Age, discovers words and language and teaches his fellow cave dwellers how to talk, thus altering the course of history.

Catling, Patrick Skene - John Midas in the Dreamtime (119 pages) While visiting the site of sacred cave paintings in the middle of the Australian outback, John Midas slips back thousands of years and finds himself among a prehistoric aboriginal tribe.

Cowley, Marjorie -

• Anooka's Answer (152 pages) While living in a river valley in southern France during the Upper Paleolithic era, thirteen-year-old Anooka rejects the ways of her clan and sets out to make another kind of life for herself.
• Dar and the Spear-thrower (118 pages) A young Cro-Magnon boy living 15,000 years ago in southeastern France is initiated into manhood by his clan and sets off on a journey to trade his valuable fire rocks for an ivory spear thrower.

Denzel, Justin F. –

• Boy of the Painted Cave (158 pages) Forbidden to make images, fourteen-year-old Tao, the boy with the bad foot, yearns to be a cave painter, recording the figures of the mammals of his prehistoric times.
• Hunt for the Last Cat (191 pages) Ten-year-old Thorn feels conflicting loyalties when members of his clan blame his friend Fonn, a girl from a rival clan, for the marauding actions of a man-eating sabertooth cat.

Craig, Ruth - Malu's wolf (187 pages) Malu is permitted to raise a wolf pup which eventually is instrumental in bringing about significant changes to the lives and traditions of the young girl's Stone Age clan.

Dickinson, Peter –

• Mana’s Story (154 pages) Part of the Kin Series . In search of a new home, The Kin manage to cross a treacherous marsh, only to find themselves under attack by ferocious new enemies. Mana, a gentle young girl, must face these dangers with her people and somehow achieve her own peace as well as theirs.
• Noli’s Story (152 pages) Part of the Kin series. In this compelling new series for older readers, each story follows a band of children living in prehistoric times. Noli has an amazing gift--the spirit of the Moonhawk comes to her in dreams and guides her.
• Po’s Story (154 pages) Part of the Kin series. After Suth kills a leopard single-handedly and leads his band of outcasts to safety, young Po wants to prove his bravery, too. But being brave is not as easy as it seems in a land of prehistoric danger!
• Suth’s Story (211 pages) Part of the Kin series. When the Moonhawk kin leader leaves four orphans to die, Suth and Noli run away to save them. Can Suth save them from the Monkey Kin people who are holding them captive?

Nolan, Dennis - Wolf Child (40 pages) Too weakened by illness to be a hunter, 9-year-old Teo is apprenticed to the toolmaker Mova but leads a lonely existence until he finds and befriends an orphaned wolf cub but food is scarce and the leader of the clan is against keeping the animal.

Osborne, Chester G. - The Memory String (154 pages) Darath and his sister spend a winter on the Siberian peninsula some 30,000 years ago learning how to heal, to use the moon sticks, and to remember the stories of the memory string before their tribe begins searching for a legendary land to the east where there are no people and lots of game.

Osborne, Mary Pope - Sunset of the Sabertooth (67 pages) (Magic Tree House series) The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers and woolly mammoths.

Platt, Kin - Darwin and the Great Beasts (63 pages) During a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits, a boy named Darwin imagines what it would be like to live in prehistoric times and try to outwit the dinosaurs, sabertooth tigers and other huge beasts.

Scieszka, Jon - Your Mother was a Neanderthal (78 pages) (Time Warp Trio series) The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the middle of an adventure in prehistoric times, where cave art is a form of graffiti and "rock" music takes on a whole new meaning.

Turnbull, Ann –

• Maroo of the Winter Caves (136 pages) Maroo, a girl of the late Ice Age, must take charge after her father is killed, and lead her little brother, mother, and aged grandmother to the safety of the winter camp before the first blizzards strike.
• Wolf King (141 pages) A young bronze-age boy sets out to kill the Wolf King, a mysterious figure who controls a wolf pack that has been raiding the local villages.

Turner, Ann Warren - Time of the Bison (54 pages) Eleven-year-old Scar Boy, one of a group of primitive cave dwellers, discovers that he has a gift for making pictures and becomes an apprentice to Painter of Caves.