Free (iTunes) Reading the Bones [Award-Nom YA Canadian Salish Archaeology Mystery]

[ATDrake]

Reading the Bones by Canadian author Gina McMurchy-Barber, herself a former archaeology student, is the 1st in her Peggy Henderson series of tween/YA archaeology-based mystery adventures, this installment starring the eponymous heroine who moves in with her aunt and uncle in a small BC town and uncovers an archaeological find while digging up their backyard, which leads to some other discoveries (both of archaeological matters involving the Salish First Nations culture (Wikipedia) and assorted nefarious plots), free courtesy of Canadian publisher Dundurn, one of our top independent imprints.

This is the iTunes Canada store's featured Free eBook of the Week and was a finalist for the 2009 Silver Birch Award, according to the blurb.

Currently free, probably just until next Monday @ iTunes (available to Canadians and apparently also many countries worldwide, when I spot-check random regional stores like Denmark). Previous Dundurn freebies have also shown up in other venues, so here's some price-drop check linkage @ B&N (also UK), Amazon (also UK), Kobo & Google Play (version #1 & #2).

If it happens you like this one and would like to try more, there's a money-saving omnibus of #1-3 which is couponable @ Kobo (but generally seems to be rather cheaper pre-couponage in other venues).

And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because award-nominated adventure mystery with a local BC setting + archaeology + First Nations culture. This is so Relevant To My Interests™ that it's like a hat trick of win and awesome.

Enjoy!

Description
Due to circumstances beyond her control, 12-year-old Peggy Henderson has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, British Columbia, to live with her aunt and uncle. Without a father and separated from her mother, who's looking for work, Peggy feels her unhappiness increasing until the day she and her uncle start digging a pond in the backyard and she realizes the rock she's been trying to pry from the ground is really a human skull.

Peggy eventually learns that her home and the entire seaside town were built on top of a 5000-year-old Coast Salish fishing village. With the help of an elderly archaeologist, a woman named Eddy, Peggy comes to know the ancient storyteller buried in her yard in a way that few others can – by reading the bones.