**2022 Red Maple Award -- Shortlisted - 2022 SYRCA Snow Willow Award --
Shortlisted - 2023 Saskatchewan Book Awards -- Shortlisted
Can two Ice Age teens separated from their tribes overcome their
differences to outwit their pursuer and survive the unforgiving
wilds?**
The climate is changing, game is disappearing, and two peoples of the
Ice Age compete for survival in a savage world. Keena, from a powerful
band of Neanderthals, and Shinoni, daughter of a Cro-Magnon shaman, are
torn from their families by Haken, a ruthless hunter. The girls dislike
each other but soon discover they need one another to survive. Together
they escape but are pursued by Haken across an Ice Age landscape
rumbling with advancing glaciers and teeming with mighty predators.
As Shinoni and Keena work to overcome disaster at every turn, they are
joined by Tewa, a powerful she-wolf who becomes their guardian and
spirit guide. Can their growing friendship overcome cultural, racial,
and even species differences? Will they ever be able to get back to
their families? Only the spirits know.