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Shiva
An Adventure of the Ice Age
By Pope, Joyce
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39732-453-8
- Publisher
- New York : J.B. Lippincott, 1990.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 1990
Gr 4-6 Brennan has created a fully credible world with insight into the survival skills and ritualistic magic that primitive man used to make his place in a dangerous world. When Shiva, the orphan girl of a prehistoric tribe, is attacked by a wolf, she is rescued by a naked, hairy boy who leaps on the wolf's back and kills it with his bare teeth. He follows her back to her people, where he is recognized as an "ogre" and is taken captive. The story then shifts to Thag, chief of the forest people, whose son...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
