false 6052946 1 <p>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 seperated 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>As life with her aunt becomes more and more unbearable, Peggy looks to the old Salish man from the past for help and answers.</p> 6228744 8 2 2008 Reading the Bones total:3|4:2|3:1| 3 11 4 1 4 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 12:35:46 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 14:49:44 -0700 2009
- absolutely great descriptions of archaeology
- one of the only books for the general public (for adults or children!) that I've seen that deals with t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 18:21:03 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 20:13:54 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 18:21:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 25 15:40:51 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 15:50:25 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 23:39:56 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 23:40:20 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6052946