The Pits

by Lesley Howarth

When an archaeologist discovers an ancient body frozen in ice and begins sprouting theories, Broddy, a ghost from the Stone Age, decides it's time to set the record straight: "Nine-Thousand-Year-Old... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564029034
• ISBN13: 9781564029034
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

"Nine thousand year old man total dork" says Spook

An archaeologist's daughter finds a preserved man on a mountainside, not suspecting that she is watched by a nine thousand year old ghost who wants the world to know how much of a jerk the mummified man really was!There are two stories here - the girl in our time, and the prehistoric story of our ghostly friend Brod (son of Brod). The ancient kids talk and behave just like modern people, and it's a really fun way to get to know what it might have been like to live back then (who cares if it's totally accurate or not)."Don't let me try to tell you what it was like, pre-history. Eat nothing but bacon-rind for three days and have someone drag you through a birch wood in wet underwear, and you'll get some idea what it felt like. Smash a few teeth with a hammer and roll around in chip fat and you've pretty much got the effect."-Brod