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Oscar and Arabella, two woolly mammoths, try to cool off during a very hot summer.

"Lug the cave boy must save his clan again--this time from a fast-moving glacier on course to crush the settlement"--

Ancient legend says that on the other side is the Golden Shrine, put there by the gods to guard the people of their world. Now, pershaps, the road to the legendary Golden Shrine is open. For Count Hamnet and his companions, the glacier has always been the boundary of the world. Now they'll be traveling beyond it into a world that's bigger than anyone knew.

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous...

"Meet the Secret Explorers--a band of brainiac kids from all around the world. Everyone in this diverse group of young experts has a specialty, from outer space to dinosaurs, and each story follows a character who gets chosen for a 'secret exploration.' In this fun, fact-filled children's book, Tamiko the dinosaur fanatic and Ollie the rainforest expert travel back in time to the ice age to lead a group of woolly mammoths away from a dangerous avalanche!...

Describes the lives of those dwelling in Europe during the Ice Age and discusses how they survived the harsh conditions of that period.

"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years...

"In this book of few words, we follow a young girl who notices everything that happens around her as her people search for a cave to shelter for the winter. And we can believe that she feels the absolute necessity to draw what she has seen and to tell stories"--

Woolly mammoth siblings Oscar and Arabella enjoy being at Mammoth Academy, but Oscar is accused of stealing oranges and when he follows some mysterious tracks to find the real thief, he discovers humans living nearby.

The Earth is in the grip of a new Ice Age, and when twelve-year-old Eleanor's scientist mother disappears in the Arctic, Eleanor sets off on a dangerous journey to find her--and uncovers a mystery, a crime, and evidence that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.