A Bone From A Dry Sea (21st Century Reference)
Selected Book Details
- School & Library Binding
- Author: Peter Dickinson
- Publisher: Turtleback
- Release Date: June 1995
- Reading Level: Young Adult
- ISBN-10: 0785762442
- ISBN-13: 9780785762447
- List Price: $16.60
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryIn 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. |
Customer Reviews
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From a book club
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I recently joined a new book club with my local museum. I am planning on being a teacher and thought it would be could to give this book club a dry run before I am in a classroom. This is the book I selected to read.
It had a nice pace. I enjoyed the author's choice of volleying between two time periods having both stories converge. Although this was a fictional read, I felt like I was right there in Africa on a dig. The author included many modern day issues political, professional and personal. I also felt like I was right there millions of years ago watching a story play out. As you read, you think that maybe we are not so different from our ancestors afterall. It was a fun escape.
Interesting ideas about our ancestors...
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There are really two, very parallel, stories told in this book, and they are only separated by a couple of million years. In the present, a young teenager named Vinny has convinced her mother to let her spend summer vacation with her father in Africa. Her father, Sam, is working in an archeological site in Africa without much success. Vinny turns out to be his good luck charm. Flip back to the past and we see a teenager called Li that is half-ape, half-human that thinks way beyond her time. Each chapter goes back and forth between past and present. A couple of times I was lost in the paleontology talk and the present storyline was a bit boring, but I liked the author's way of describing the past storyline.
HISTORY is GREAT, October 18, 2002
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The book was great and people don't appreciate the topics stated in the book. Many people just skimmed through the book and found it horrible but if you read it for meaning, you will find the book to be very good.
A Bone From A Dry Sea
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I had to read the book "A Bone From A Dry Sea" for school and since no one else in my group wanted to read it, I ended up reading it and loving it. The book tells about the adventures of "Li" a girl who lived in Africa 4 million years ago and the story also talks about the life of a girl named "Vinny" who discovers the remains of a dolphin's shoulder blade and who also discovered some of Li's life when she visited her father in Africa.
A fascinating view on evolution
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A Bone From a Dry Sea is an overall good book. Allthough some parts were I admit a little boring the book brings up some very important topics. I felt I could relate to the present main charactor Vinny. Li was another question. Even though it was hard to relate to Li, I found the part of the book concerning her to be very interesting. The way Li thought and used trial and error was what kept the book interesting, that and the parts of Vinny getting to know her dad...
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