Neandergirl

By John Himmelman

On a dig in a Spanish desert, archeologist, Jennifer Moore uncovers the skeleton of a young Neanderthal, a prehistoric branch of humans that mysteriously vanished. In its hand is a bone flute. But Neanderthals were not known to create music.

40,000 years earlier, Skeetu, one of the last remaining Neanderthals, finds a flute. This leads her to a small band of Homo sapiens-our ancestors. With her Woolly Rhino, Bulo, they travel together in search of more of their kind. Saber-toothed tigers, monstrous hyenas, cave bears, wolves, and winter storms challenge their survival.

Forward to present time: Jennifer is racing backwards through her dreams; seeing through the eyes of one ancestor to the next. Could it have something to do with the flute she stole from the dig site?

Neandergirl is in essence a time travel story, joining family across the span of 40,000 years, and plays with the challenges of companionship-not between two races, but two different species of human beings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910903795
• ISBN13: 9781910903797
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers Ltd
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary