A Bone to Pick: A Peggy Henderson Adventure

By Gina McMurchy-Barber

Peggy is off to a Viking site in North America where she unearths the remains of a brave young warrior.

It’s a dream come true for Peggy Henderson when her friend, Dr. Edwina McKay, lets her tag along to the Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows National Park in Newfoundland, where Dr. McKay will be teaching archaeology field school for the summer. Peggy already knows a lot about archaeology — having been on three previous excavations — but does she need to brag about it so much? After alienating herself from the other students with her know-it-all attitude, Peggy accidentally discovers a Viking burial cairn. The students and archaeologists are ecstatic. But when it comes time to excavate, she’s banned from participating in the dig. Will Peggy’s trip to Newfoundland end just as badly as the Vikings’ did? She’s afraid it will — that is until she learns an unexpected lesson from a Viking warrior.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Release date: Nov 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781459730731

Gina McMurchy-Barber

Gina McMurchy-Barber is the author of Free as a Bird, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Peggy Henderson Adventure Series. Gina lives in Surrey, B.C.

Reviews for A Bone to Pick

[zohrehtheexplorer · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

After the death of her father, the 12 year old Peggy moves to her aunt and uncle house in Crescent Beach in BC. She is really sad without her father and mother. One day when she is helping her uncle to dig a pond in the backyard, she finds a human skull!!!With the help of an archaeologist, Eddy, she learns that the whole city is built on a five thousand year old village. With the help of Eddy, Peggy learns many things about the buried person: He was a storyteller. From then on the story is in two different styles: the story of Peggy and the story of the storyteller and his family. Reading the Bones is a brilliant story for middle school students who are interested to archaeology and culture of ancient. The author, Gina McMurchy-Barber, is a teacher who has won awards for her work in promoting Canadian history.Awards: Reading the Bones was nominated for the 2009 Silver Birch Award and the 2009 Langley Book of the Year Award.