Reading the Bones

Submitted by dmacdonell on Sun, 2009-10-04 13:59

Reading the Bones

A Peggy Henderson Adventure

By Gina McMurchy-Barber

A A Peggy Henderson Adventure Book
978-1-55002-732-7
February 2008
152pp, Paperback
$11.99 CAD

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I think kids should read this book because it is quick, easy-to-read, fun and interesting … I enjoyed the variety of personalities in the characters. The pictures that I envisioned were vivid, there was lots of details given. The conclusion left me satisfied and it seemed original. - Joe, age 13, Sarah's Stars, September 2008

Due to circumstances beyond her control, 12-year-old Peggy Henderson has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, British Columbia, to live with her aunt and uncle. Without a father and seperated from her mother, who's looking for work, Peggy feels her unhappiness increasing until the day she and her uncle start digging a pond in the backyard and she realizes the rock she's been trying to pry from the ground is really a human skull.

Peggy eventually learns that her home and the entire seaside town were built on top of a 5000-year-old Coast Salish fishing village. With the help of an elderly archaeologist, a woman named Eddy, Peggy comes to know the ancient storyteller buried in her yard in a way that few others can -- by reading the bones.

As life with her aunt becomes more and more unbearable, Peggy looks to the old Salish man from the past for help and answers.