Earth's Children The Clan of the Cave Bear, Book 1, (Paperback)

from dragonasbreath

An apparently 5-yr-old girl is orphaned by an earthquake. Alone in the wilderness she is starving and infected from a lion attack. The Neanderthals were going to let her die when the Medicine Woman asked to help her. So begins Ayla's saga - as she struggles to fit into an alien culture where they...

from Justy

In the first book of the Earth Children series we meet Ayla. Ayla looses her family in an earthquake and is left alone in a indifferent world. She is rescued by people so different from her that she screams the first time she sees them. I love that by reading this book I can escape to a completel...

from Krista23

I really enjoyed learning as I read a really great story. Jean has done so much research while writing that she passes it to the reader without you even noticing. I loved the characters and enjoyed looking into the human past as we lived in a cave, found food, shelter, family and independence thr...

from MissTeacher

This thick prehistorice saga did seem daunting at first, but I'm glad I stuck with it. I think, more than the story, I was actually interested in the interpretation of prehistoric life. I enjoyed the detailed descriptions of the work involved, the pictures painted of flora and fauna, and the geog...

from mrflynn

I purchased this book on a whim, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. While the narative style jumps around a bit, the subject matter and the character's growth throughout the book made it difficult to put down. While I usually do not like historical fiction, this book was so outside the bounds of ...