Weatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children--human beings--this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEAOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: The Ice Age is very cool ... for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. But nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure -- not even a saber-toothed tiger!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "This almost wordless picture book set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation. Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million and ten thousand years ago, small groups of people traveled their known world, hunting for food, seeking shelter, and slowly becoming more like the people we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOCSmith, Jeff
Summary: The ancient world was filled with restless spirits and powerful forces. 2 million years ago, human evolution made its move. It chose Fire. At the dawn of humanity, during a period of tremendous change and drought, three lost children meet a mysterious traveler named Tuki. Together, their search for the Motherherd of all Buffalo leads them far north through the dangerous territory of a rival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartoon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: OVS 741.5 SMICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC SMIDougherty, Brandi
Summary: What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Inspired by Pixar Animation Studios latest film, The Good Dinosaur, this jacketed picture book features everyone's favorite new prehistoric characters and is complemented by stunning original artwork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC DOUSmith, Jeff
Summary: "Two million years ago, at the dawn of humanity, when multiple species of humans lived at the same time, three lost children, a shaggy old timer, and an outcast missing link, fell in with an outsider named Tuki who carried with him the secret of Fire. A rival species, the Habiline, hunt and kill anyone found using fire. When word of the small band of misfits spreads, the new companions find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartoon Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC SMIReynolds, Aaron
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Dave Unga-Bunga is elected leader of the village after Shaman Faboo goes missing, and if Dave can't find Shaman Faboo and bring him back, he'll be doomed to take over as leader forever!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Summary: A little prehistoric boy decides to hunt for his own food, and makes a new friend in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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Summary: Cast out of the Raven clan, Torak heads to the reedbeds at Lake Axehead, where he is hunted by the hidden people and he must do battle with an ancient evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAVBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "About ten thousand years ago in the northeast, the Abenaki - People of the Dawn Land - created a thriving community in social and ecological balance with nature and with each other. One of the finest sons of the People is Young Hunter, who dedicates himself to becoming a pure hunter. But a shadow is crossing over this place, threatening his beloved homeland, and Young Hunter is called to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Publishing 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BRUGear, W. Michael.
Summary: Captured as slaves when their village is attacked, Odion and his little sister are pursued by their tribe's war chief and other rescuers who are unaware that an evil witch-woman is responsible for the abductions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEAPaver, Michelle.
Summary: To fulfill his destiny, Torak must defy demons and tokoroths, navigate through the Gorge of the Hidden People, and battle the evil Eagle Owl Mage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAVStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Geronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor Geronimo Stiltonoot is back in another prehistoric adventure. Geronimo Stiltonoot and his family are off to find a cure for Grandma Ratrock's aches and pains. She's heard that a remedy hides in a legendary valley, and Geronimo isn't even sure it exists. Little does he know that getting there will be an adventure among geysers, volcanoes, and rivers of molten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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Summary: Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: "Most days Caveboy has lots of fun things to do, like taking care of his pet rock and playing baseball. But today, he is bored. Mama is hunting, Papa is repainting their cave, and his friend Mags is busy. He could play with Sister, but sisters smell like burps! Will Caveboy ever find someone to play with?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR RED BarCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BARPaver, Michelle.
Summary: When Wolf is taken by the Soul-Eaters, Torak must infiltrate their clan to bring him back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PAVBardhan-Quallen, Sudipta
Summary: Caveboy loves banging his club, running really fast, and playing with his friends, but when his club breaks, he needs to find a new one, leading him to making a new friend and discovering his own bravery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BarBeckhorn, Susan Williams
Summary: "Marked as tabat--the unlucky one--Kai and his wolf, Uff, must brave the long winter together and learn what it takes to survive on their own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2016
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Summary: Captured as slaves when their village is attacked, Odion and his little sister are pursued by their tribe's war chief and other rescuers who are unaware that an evil witch-woman is responsible for the abductions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAHarrison, Sue.
Summary: Story of Kiin in love with one of Chagak's sons but promised to the other on the Aleutian Islands of nine thousand years ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI FIC HARPreston-Gannon, Frann
Summary: Dave loves his cave, but wonders if maybe there is a better cave somewhere else and decides to find out for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PREAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni--one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AUECameron, W. Bruce
Summary: "Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever... Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMGear, Kathleen O'Neal
Summary: In the brutal Ice Age caused by the ancient Jemen war, many archaic human species, including Denisovans and Homo erectus, hover on the verge of extinction. There seems no way out, until the greatest Neanderthal holy man, Trogon, has a vision. Legends say the truce that ended the old war left one hostage in the hands of the victorious rebels: the god-like Jemen leader, known as the Old Woman of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2022