PREHISTORY

38,000 BC

A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson (1993)
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. (Y DICKINS)

38,000 BC

Cave of the Moving Shadows by Thomas Millstead (1979)
A twelve year old boy living in Cro-Magnon times must choose between his training in sorcery and his desire to be a hunter. (J MILLSTE)

28,000 BC

The Memory String by Chester G. Osborne (1984)
Darath and his sister spend a winter on the Siberian peninsula some 30,000 years ago learning how to heal, to use the moon sticks and to remember the stories of the memory string before their tribe begins searching for the legendary land to the east where there are no people and lots of game. (J-N OSBORNE)

23,050 BC

Maroo of the Winter Caves by Ann Turnbull (1984)
Maroo, a girl of the late Ice Age, must take charge after her father is killed and lead her little brother, mother and newborn baby and aged grandmother to the safety of the winter camp before the first blizzards strike. (J TURNBUL)

16,000 BC

Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel (1988)
Forbidden to make images, fourteen year old Tao, the boy with a bad foot, yearns to be a cave painter, recording the figures of the mammals, rhinos, bison and other animals of his prehistoric times. (J DENZEL)

16,000 BC

Return to the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel (1997)
Fourteen year old Tao, a cave painter living in prehistoric times, sets out on an odyssey to bring healing to the blind girl, Deha, and the outcast children. Sequel to: Boy of the Painted Cave. (J DENZEL)

13,000 BC

Anooka's Answer by Marjorie Cowley (1998)
While living in a river valley in southern France during the Upper Paleolithic era, thirteen year old Anooka rejects the ways of her clan and sets out to make another kind of life for herself. Sequel to: Dar and the Spear Thrower. (J COWLEY)

13,000 BC

Dar and the Spear-Thrower by Marjorie Cowley (1994)
A young Cro-Magnon boy living during the Ice Age in southeastern France is initiated into manhood by his clan and sets off on a journey to trade his valuable fire rocks for an ivory spear thrower. (J COWLEY)

10,000 BC

The Magic Amulet by William O. Steele (1979)
Left to die by his prehistoric family band, a wounded young hunter must find and join a new group if he is to survive. (J STEELE)

10,000 BC

Wolf-Woman by Sherryl Jordan (1994)
When she is three years old, Tanith is taken from a den of wolves and lives for many years as the daughter of a chief of a warlike clan, until circumstances force her to choose between wolves and men. (Y JORDAN)

8000 BC

One Small Blue Bead by Byrd Baylor (1992)
A boy makes it possible for an old man in their primitive tribe to go in search of other men in far-off places. (J BAYLOR)

8000 BC

Shiva by J. H. Brennan (1990)
A Cro-Magnon tribe is forced to confront its fears of the Neanderthal people they call ogres, when a young girl of the tribe, Shiva, adopts an ogre boy, and when Hiram, a young hunter from the tribe is captured by ogres. Book one of a series. (J BRENNAN)

8000 BC

Shiva Accused: An Adventure of the Ice Age by J.H. Brennan (1991)
As the major ceremony the Star Jamboree approaches, political rivals from another tribe falsely accuse the Shingu girl Shiva of murdering the Hag, the leader of all the tribal witch women. Book two of a series. (J BRENNAN)

8000 BC

Shiva's Challenge: An Adventure of the Ice Age by J. H. Brennan (1992)
Fourteen year old Shiva submits to an ordeal in the frozen wasteland north of her tribe's camp, to test her potential for becoming a shaman for the Shingu people. Book three of a series. (J BRENNAN)

7056 BC

Mother Earth, Father Sky by Sue Harrison (1990)
Surviving the brutal massacre of her tribe, Chagak set out across the icy waters off America's northwest coast on an astonishing journey. (Y HARRISO)

6000 BC

Hunt for the Last Cat by Justin Denzel (1991)
Ten year old Thorn feels conflicting loyalties when members of his clan blame his friend Fonn, a girl from a rival clan, for the marauding actions of a man-eating sabertooth cat. (J DENZEL)

6000 BC

The Wolf King by Ann Turnbull (1976)
A young bronze-age boy sets out to kill the Wolf King, a mysterious figure who controls a wolf pack that has been raiding the local villages. (J TURNBUL)

1503 BC

His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut by Dorothy Sharp Carter (1987)
Hatshepsut, a queen in Ancient Egypt, declared herself pharaoh and ruled as such for more than twenty years. (Y CARTER)

1500 BC

The Faraway Lurs by Harry Behn (1981)
The romance of two young people from warring tribes in the early Bronze Age. (J BEHN)

1400 BC

The Egyptian Necklace by Myron Tim Palmer (1961)
While Ar and his friend Pta are visiting the site of the new obelisk with Ar's father, the Pharaoh's chief architect, they become aware of an evil plan to rob a tomb and plant the evidence within the gates of Ar's family causing them dishonor and death. (J PALMER)

1334 BC

Diary of the Boy King, Tut-Ankh-Amen by June Reig (1978)
A fictionalized diary kept by Tutankhamen during his ninth year, the year he became King of Egypt. (J REIG)

1300 BC

A Place in the Sun by Jill Rubalcaba (1997)
In ancient Egypt, the gifted young son of a sculptor is taken into slavery when he attempts to save his father's life, ad is himself almost killed before his exceptional talent leads Pharaoh to name him Royal Sculptor. (J RUBALCA)

1250 BC

Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Julius Lester (2000)
A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as priestess to the Egyptian gods. (Y LESTER)

1200 BC

Escape from Egypt: A Novel by Sonia Levitin (1994)
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half Egyptian, half Syrian Jennat. (Y LEVITIN)

1180 BC

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney (2002)
Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxndra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy. (Y COONEY)

1180 BC

The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War by Henry Treece (1967)
A young boy, slave to Helen, witnesses the events leading to the downfall of Troy-Cassandra's warning, Odysseus' secret visit to Helen, Achilles' slaying of Hector, the death of Achilles and the bringing of the wooden "horse". (J TREECE)

965 BC

King David by Helen Doss (1967)
King David of Israel lies dying as his sons engage in a life-and-death struggle for their father's throne. (J DOSS)

900 BC

Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff (1958)
Living during the time of the Bronze Age, Drem, a boy with a crippled arm, begins the long and arduous training to become a warrior. (Y SUTCLIF)

332 BC

The Ugly Goddess by Elsa Marston (2002)
Fourteen-year-old Princess Meret is unhappy with her future as consort of the Egyptian god Amun, especially after meeting Hector, a handsome Greek soldier, but when she is kidnapped, it is up to Hector and a young servant boy to help rescue her with the aid of the goddess Taweret. (Y MARSTON)

200 BC

I Marched with Hannibal by Hans Baumann (1962)
After being found by Suru the elephant, a boy joins Hannibal's march over the Alps to the gates of Rome. (J BAUMANN)

100 BC

Sun Horse, Moon Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff (1977)
A young boy in pre-Roman England becomes chieftain of his tribe and learns just how much he must sacrifice for his people. (Y SUTCLIF)

57 BC

Cleopatra, Daughter of the Nile by Kristiana Gregory (1999)
While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve year old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety. (J GREGORY)

50 BC

The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter (1974)
Crippled in a Roman raid on his native island, Coll spends many years planning an impregnable defense but has to overcome many obstacles before he is given a chance to put it to the test. (J HUNTER)

45 BC

The Wadjet Eye by Jill Rubalcaba (2000)
After his mother dies, Damon, a young medical student living in Alexandria, Egypt, in 45 B.C., makes a perilous journey to Spain to locate his father who is serving in the Roman army led by Julius Caesar. (J RUBALCA)

30 BC

Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome by Marissa Moss (2002)
Twelve-year-old Galen describes his life as a slave in Rome under the Emperor Augustus. Features hand-printed text, drawings and marginal notes. (J MOSS)