{"product_id":"9781554885954","title":"Reading the Bones: A Peggy Henderson Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Short-listed for the 2009 Silver Birch Award, commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids\u0026amp;Teens\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   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 separated 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  As life with her aunt becomes more and more unbearable, Peggy looks to the old Salish man from the past for help and answers. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181559464176,"sku":"9781554885954","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554885954_p0.jpg?v=1763785462","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554885954","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}