Cover of A Bone From a Dry Sea

A Bone From a Dry Sea

In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.

Audience
young adultchildrens
Length
medium · 208 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked A Bone From a Dry Sea? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked A Bone From a Dry Sea. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Ramsay Scallop Shares historical fiction, young adult, fiction
  2. Ruby Red Shares young adult, historical fiction, fiction
  3. The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis Shares science, anthropology
  4. Black Dove, White Raven Shares young adult, historical fiction, Africa

“People who read A Bone From a Dry Sea tend to reach for these next.”

  1. And All Between
  2. The Second Bend in the River
  3. Anna to the Infinite Power
  4. Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs

“If you want more of the same (historical fiction about childhood), start with these.”

  1. Darcy
  2. West Against The Wind
  3. The Ornament Tree
  4. Julie

“Readers describe these the same way.”

  1. Pictures, 1918
  2. The Bloody Country
  3. The Tiger in the Well
  4. The Hypnotist

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Curiosity
  2. Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age
  3. The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age
  4. The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals