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The Pits [Hardcover]

Lesley Howarth (Author), Fletcher Sibthorp (Illustrator)
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August 5, 1996
Much to the dismay of ghost Broddy Brodson, an archaeologist's discovery of an iceman brings about stories of The Stone Age culture and the iceman that Broddy knows are not true, so Broddy goes out of his way to tell the archaeologist how things really were back then.

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When an archaeologist discovers an ancient body frozen in ice and begins sprouting theories, Broddy, a ghost from the Stone Age, decides it's time to set the record straight: "Nine-Thousand-Year-Old Man Total Dork, Says Spook." Comic yet insightful, this fantasy paints an imaginative portrait of what could be the universal elements of teenage life, whatever the era.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 228 pages
  • Publisher: Candlewick; First Edition edition (August 5, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1564029034
  • ISBN-13: 978-1564029034
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,800,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Nine thousand year old man total dork" says Spook, October 5, 2000
This review is from: The Pits (Hardcover)
An archaeologist's daughter finds a preserved man on a mountainside, not suspecting that she is watched by a nine thousand year old ghost who wants the world to know how much of a jerk the mummified man really was!

There are two stories here - the girl in our time, and the prehistoric story of our ghostly friend Brod (son of Brod). The ancient kids talk and behave just like modern people, and it's a really fun way to get to know what it might have been like to live back then (who cares if it's totally accurate or not).

"Don't let me try to tell you what it was like, pre-history. Eat nothing but bacon-rind for three days and have someone drag you through a birch wood in wet underwear, and you'll get some idea what it felt like. Smash a few teeth with a hammer and roll around in chip fat and you've pretty much got the effect."-Brod

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1.0 out of 5 stars It was bad, September 30, 2002
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This book was hard to follow and it had no scipt line what so ever the book was just plain uneventful. Just like the Detroit Lions!
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