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Lug, Dawn of the Ice Age: How One Small Boy Saved Our Big, Dumb Species
Author:
Zeltser, David
Illustrator:
Coovert, J. P.
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 8-12
Language: English
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LC: PZ7.Z398
Grade: 3-7
Print Run: 25000
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ISBN-13: 9781606845134
LCCN: 2014003144
Imprint: Egmont USA
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
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Pub Date: 09/09/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $15.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
H 8.56",
W 5.75",
D 0.67",
0.7 lbs.
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Historical Fiction
Action/Adventure
Humorous Fiction
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Prehistory
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
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LC Subjects:
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Glacial epoch, Fiction
Prehistoric peoples, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Ice age, Fiction
Prehistoric peoples, Fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
5
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Points: 4.0
Lexile Level:
760
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| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 09/01/2014 |
| A banished caveboy artist desperately seeks a way to warn his people of the looming Ice Age that is nearly upon them. 192pp., B/W Ill. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2015 |
| 4. Preferring cave painting to bashing heads, Lug fails his tribe's test of manhood and is banished. With a mute exile and a girl from a rival clan, Lug must convince their tribes to unite against a ravenous pride of saber-toothed tigers and prepare for the impending Ice Age. This prehistoric romp with frantic Flintstones-style action is illustrated with expressive cave-drawing-like spot art. rwp. 182pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2015. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 08/01/2014 |
| A Stone Age comedy features a caveboy guilty of "uncavemanlike behavior." The summary exile that Lug earns by failing to capture a "jungle llama" to ride in an upcoming headstone match turns out to be a blessing in disguise, as it leads to a meeting with Hamela--a member of the rival Boar Rider clan who has turned from the customary all-dodo diet to vegetarianism. She in turn introduces him to Woolly, an errant young mammoth atop whom he goes on to lead his headstone team to victory. Lug lands in further hot water when his forbidden cave paintings are discovered--but following the arrival of snow, a pride of saber tooth tigers and more mammoths, he manages to convince at least some of his simpleminded people that big changes are coming. By the end, he even has them using fire ("storm light"). The animals all talk (except the dodos), and Lug's frog-licking proto-hippie sidekick leads a notably rock-headed supporting cast. Happily, characters speak in complete sentences and with standard syntax, and the banter is nicely snappy. Preliminary sketches indicate that suitably primitive art will accompany the story. Fred Flintstone would feel right at home in this light-as-pumice comedy. (Fantasy. 9-11). 192pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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| School Library Journal | 06/01/2014 |
| Gr 3-5--Life as a caveboy is rough. You constantly have to prove yourself by bashing anything that moves with your club. For Lug, it's the complete opposite of who he is. Lug is an artist who would much rather paint on the walls of a cave than smash skulls with his club. In Lug's words, "paintings don't tell you what to do, or call you names, or make you feel small or worthless." Ultimately, the protagonist is banished from his tribe because of his lack of bravery. He meets a vegetarian animal whisperer named Echo along with his tribesman Stony, and they work together to save their fighting clans from the impending deep freeze. This book is filled with humor but also a deeper message of learning to accept who you are and not backing down from what you are passionate about. The novel lends itself to discussions of bullying and accepting differences. Readers who are unfamiliar with the Ice Age could benefit from pairing this work with informational texts on the animals and climate of the time period. A roaring addition for public and school libraries. Andy Plemmons, David C. Barrow Elementary, Athens, GA. 192p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2014. |
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