The Boy of the Painted Cave

Tao is an outcast. Unlike the great hunters of his clan, Tao does not want to kill the wild bears or woolly mammoths of the hunt. Instead he wants only to paint them. But only Chosen Ones can be cave painters. What's more, Volt, the clan leader, violently despises Tao. And when the other clan members discover Tao's secret talent, they cast him out into the wilderness alone. There, he befriends a wild wolf dog named Ram, and the mysterious Graybeard, who teaches him the true secret of the hunt.

• The Golden Bull: A Mesopotamian Adventure
• Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of 'The Iliad'
• Maroo of the Winter Caves
• The Cay (Laurel-Leaf Books)
• The Golden Goblet (Newbery Library, Puffin)
• The Giver (Giver Quartet)
• Return to the Painted Cave
• Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
• Dar and the Spear Thrower
• The Little Prince