Cover of A Bone From a Dry Sea

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A BONE FROM A DRY SEA

PETER DICKINSON

Then: Between the parching land and the mothering sea live the tribe, our ancestors. One of them is a child, Li. She is different, a thinker, a questioner, bringing small changes to the age-old pattern of their lives, preparing herself and them, unawares, for the huge change coming.

Now:Four million years later, that sea is dry. Another child, Vinny, visits the site where her father is one of a team searching for the fossil remains of our ancestors. She too is a thinker, a questioner, a herald of change.

Peter Dickinson, award-winning author of Tulku, Eva and AK, has used a controversial theory of human evolution as the framework for a compelling story. A Bone from a Dry Sea proves once again that he is one of Britain's finest writers for young people.

Jacket illustration by Anthea Toorchen
Young Adult

By the same author:

• The Weathermonger
• Heartsease
• The Devil's Children
• Emma Tupper's Diary
• The Dancing Bear
• The Gift
• Chance, Luck and Destiny
• The Blue Hawk
  Winner of the Guardian Award
• Annerton Pit
• Tulku
  Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Literary Award
• City of Gold
  Winner of the Carnegie Medal
• The Seventh Raven
• Healer
• Giant Cold
• A Box of Nothing
• Merlin Dreams
• Eva
• AK
  Winner of the Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year

Back jacket photograph: Fay Goodwin

ISBN 0 575 05306 2

(photo of himself)