11,000 Years Lost

This action-packed, fully-imagined time travel book takes a young Texan girl, participating in an archaeological dig, back to the time of the mammoth. There Esther is adopted by a group of mammoth hunters, who teach her to forage for food, make clothes, build fires, and protect herself from the megafauna who roam the land - scimitar cats, panthers, and more. Even as she grows attached to her new family and proud of her many skills, Esther searches for a way home.

Praise for 11,000 Years Lost:

A Texas Bluebonnet Award suggested read for 2006-2007

"A vivid and engrossing picture of Pleistocene society... Griffin draws on her careful research to invent the past with a specificity beyond an archaeologist's wildest dreams." - Archaeology Magazine

"Esther's adventures in the messy world of late Ice Age Texas provide a compelling and believable read. Likable characters populate a fully realized world." - Kirkus

"An exciting peek into the distant past." - Booklist

"A unique, superior contribution to speculative adventure fiction, Ether's survival story is an emotionally satisfying, well-crafted read." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books