The Caveman in the Backyard

<p><strong><em>Have you ever seen a mammoth? </em></strong>Kevin Sinclair has!</p><p>One night Kevin wakes up to see a caveman standing outside his bedroom window. When he tells his mother what he saw she doesn't believe him. She thinks he is acting out his frustrations with his <strong>new middle school</strong> making friends and missing their dog who has run away. To top it off everyone at home is anxious because Kevin's dad is deployed on a dangerous mission. </p><p>The caveman turns out to be <strong>a Clovis boy a First American</strong> who enlists Kevin's help in retrieving a spear point missing for 13000 years. Accompanied by his little sister and their teenage babysitter the trio of time-traveling 21<sup>st</sup> century kids pass through a crack in the Earth at the Murray Springs Clovis Site in Southeast Arizona to find themselves in the <strong>Ice Age</strong>. Along the way the children dodge prehistoric predators experience a mammoth hunt and outwit a mean tribal chieftain to discover that <strong>friendship courage and honor</strong> really don't change over time.  </p>