The bone wars

By Kathryn Lasky

Subjects: Indians of north america, wars, fiction, Wars, Indians of North America, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Children's fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, Juvenile fiction, Paleontology

Description: In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Native Americans prepare to go to war against the US government.