Reading the Bones
A Peggy Henderson Adventure
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4.4 • 10 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
When her mother leaves to search for a job in Toronto, Peggy Henderson moves to the town of Crescent Beach, B.C. to live with her uncle and aunt. A surprise discovery in her new backyard leads Peggy to team up with an eccentric archeologist and foil some ill-intentioned neighbours. Gina McMurchy-Barber was inspired to write this first book in a children’s series while studying archeology at Simon Fraser University. With its spunky heroine and lively stories about the prehistoric Coast Salish tribe, Reading the Bones has the air of an old-fashioned adventure-mystery.
