A Bone From a Dry Sea

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Summary: A Bone From A Dry Sea
Review: A Bone From A Dry Sea Book Review This book changed completely the way I used to look at ancient civilations and the job of archeologists on searching for the unknown. A Bone From A Dry Sea is a novel by Peter Dickinson which include two related stories that happen at different times. One is about a little girl named Li who is the thinker of her people. Her uncle, Presh, was the leader of the tribe. One day the tribe was attacked and Presh was killed. Incidently, most of the tribe was killed due to a tsunami. Li took the leadership to lead them to a safe place. On the other hand, four million years later, the sea had dried. Vinny was visiting the site where her father worked searching for the fossil remains of our ancestors. There, she was considered their "lucky pet". This young girl found a bone and observed details which weren't even noticed by famous experts. Therefore, leading the team to infer outstanding discoveries and motivatig them to excavate more. This mysterious novel was very realistic and believable. Teenagers can relate to the characters. The story as pretty well developed, still leaving some information out to keep the mystery. It was hard to get bored, there was always something new happening. The first story was too descriptive and took pages to get excited. The ending solved all problems and uncovered mysteries, still leaving a thought in our mind, challenging the author to write a continuation in the future.

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Summary: A Bone From A Dry Sea
Review: A Bone From A Dry Sea Book ReviewThis book changed completely the way I used to look at ancient civilations and the job of archeologists on searching for the unknown. A Bone From A Dry Sea is a novel by Peter Dickinson which include two related stories that happen at different times. One is about a little girl named Li who is the thinker of her people. Her uncle, Presh, was the leader of the tribe. One day the tribe was attacked and Presh was killed. Incidently, most of the tribe was killed due to a tsunami. Li took the leadership to lead them to a safe place.On the other hand, four million years later, the sea had dried. Vinny was visiting the site where her father worked searching for the fossil remains of our ancestors. There, she was considered their "lucky pet". This young girl found a bone and observed details which weren't even noticed by famous experts. Therefore, leading the team to infer outstanding discoveries and motivatig them to excavate more.This mysterious novel was very realistic and believable. Teenagers can relate to the characters. The story as pretty well developed, still leaving some information out to keep the mystery. It was hard to get bored, there was always something new happening. The first story was too descriptive and took pages to get excited. The ending solved all problems and uncovered mysteries, still leaving a thought in our mind, challenging the author to write a continuation in the future.

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Summary: A fascinating view on evolution
Review: A Bone From a Dry Sea is an overall good book. Allthough some parts were I admit a little boring the book brings up some very important topics. I felt I could relate to the present main charactor Vinny. Li was another question. Even though it was hard to relate to Li, I found the part of the book concerning her to be very interesting. The way Li thought and used trial and error was what kept the book interesting, that and the parts of Vinny getting to know her dad...

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Summary: Nicely done!
Review: An enlightening excursion into the pleasures and politics of paleontology

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Summary: HISTORY is GREAT, October 18, 2002
Review: Hi I'm Steven, I disliked this book for a number of reasons. It changed chapters to quickly, so it is hard to understand the life of Vinny and Li as a child growing up. Once you start to uderstand what Peter Dickenson is talking about, he changes the chapters, so it makes it very very coppy, and then you get annoyed becuase it keeps changing chapters, from Vinny's life to Li's life, then back to Vinny's and then Li's you get the picture. And Li changing evolution in about two years.(what I call the quicky evolution)Li shouldn't think she is so different, all that happened was the shark thing in the biginning of the book, and then the thing with the shell at the end. The Then story of the book ended really poorly, with she turned the rock with the shell. And the Now chapter cocentrated mostly on her relationship with her dad, and not digging for bones and more important stuff like that. Actually I thought the Now chapter ended much better than the Then chapter with Vinny finding the bone that Li had squished into the end of the book, to end the Now chapter. And that is my review of Bone from a Dry Sea By Steven H.

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Summary: My revew of Bone from a Dry Sea
Review: Hi I'm Steven, I disliked this book for a number of reasons. It changed chapters to quickly, so it is hard to understand the life of Vinny and Li as a child growing up. Once you start to uderstand what Peter Dickenson is talking about, he changes the chapters, so it makes it very very coppy, and then you get annoyed becuase it keeps changing chapters, from Vinny's life to Li's life, then back to Vinny's and then Li's you get the picture. And Li changing evolution in about two years.(what I call the quicky evolution)Li shouldn't think she is so different, all that happened was the shark thing in the biginning of the book, and then the thing with the shell at the end. The Then story of the book ended really poorly, with she turned the rock with the shell. And the Now chapter cocentrated mostly on her relationship with her dad, and not digging for bones and more important stuff like that. Actually I thought the Now chapter ended much better than the Then chapter with Vinny finding the bone that Li had squished into the end of the book, to end the Now chapter. And that is my review of Bone from a Dry Sea By Steven H.

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Summary: A Bone From A Dry Sea
Review: I had to read the book "A Bone From A Dry Sea" for school and since no one else in my group wanted to read it, I ended up reading it and loving it. The book tells about the adventures of "Li" a girl who lived in Africa 4 million years ago and the story also talks about the life of a girl named "Vinny" who discovers the remains of a dolphin's shoulder blade and who also discovered some of Li's life when she visited her father in Africa.

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Summary: WELL DEVELOPED THIN STORY LINE!
Review: I think that Mr. Dickinson does some great things in his book. He develops the charcters very well and uses them in a very good way. I think the set up of the book was a wonderful way to get the information across, though it was complicated at times. The story line was thin, but was some what saved by the great characters, and excellent descriptions. I think it was good but could have room for much improvement!

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Summary: Great book to read! Has interesting topics!
Review: I wasn't to enthralled about reading the book at first to get extra credit in my biology class, but as I began to read more the more interesting it got. The expression of two different lives throughout the story is really cool! Its a must read!!

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Summary: Theorizing about the past... subtly mysterious.
Review: Loved this book... hard to put down.

"A Bone Fromm A Dry Sea" tells the story of Vinny... and her ancient ancestor Li, who lived millions of years ago. Now, Vinny has found a shoulder blade... the blade of a dolphin that lived long ago