Purchase from the Book Depository, Amazon or Powell's Books SOA = Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction IBBY = International Board on Books for Young People Honour Book Novelists use the research of archaeologists blended with their own imaginations to create stories that show us what the lives of early humans might have been like.ĪLANCB = American Library Association Notable Children's BookīBYA = An American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults" pick We can also see the art they left behind, which often gives us a good idea of what they looked like and how they dressed. From garbage dumps (called "middens") where people threw away fruit pits, broken tools and other things, we can tell what types of food prehistoric people ate and what kinds of tools they made and used. Still, they can be based on extensive research that sometimes gives us a surprisingly good idea of how certain people probably lived before written history.Īrchaeologists can tell from the foundation stones of buildings, or sometimes just the remnants of post holes, what prehistoric houses in different areas were like. Technically then, novels set in prehistoric times when there were no written documents are not "historical" novels. "History" relates to what we know about the past from written documents. Young Adult Historical Novels: Prehistoric Times
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