Book description
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.
Gina McMurchy-Barber is the author of Free as Bird and Reading the
Bones, which received a 2009 Silver Birch Award nomination. She is the
recipient of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Excellence in
Teaching Canadian History. Gina lives in Surrey, British Columbia. Her
website is www. ginabooks. com.
