Reading the Bones: A Peggy Henderson Adventure
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- Synopsis
- Short-listed for the 2009 Silver Birch Award, commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Due to circumstances beyond her control, 12-year-old Peggy Henderson has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, British Columbia, to live with her aunt and uncle. Without a father and separated from her mother, who’s looking for work, Peggy feels her unhappiness increasing until the day she and her uncle start digging a pond in the backyard and she realizes the rock she’s been trying to pry from the ground is really a human skull. Peggy eventually learns that her home and the entire seaside town were built on top of a 5000-year-old Coast Salish fishing village. With the help of an elderly archaeologist, a woman named Eddy, Peggy comes to know the ancient storyteller buried in her yard in a way that few others can – by reading the bones. As life with her aunt becomes more and more unbearable, Peggy looks to the old Salish man from the past for help and answers.
- Copyright:
- 2008
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781554885954
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781550027327, 9781770702752, 9781550027327
- Publisher:
- Dundurn Group, The
- Date of Addition:
- 09/17/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Gina Mcmurchy-Barber
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Grade Levels:
- Sixth grade
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.