{"id":145,"date":"2019-05-27T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T19:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ginabooks.com\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:15:05","slug":"a-bone-to-pick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/books\/a-bone-to-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bone to Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Reading-the-bones-series-bone-to-pick.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" style=\"width:300px;height:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Reading-the-bones-series-bone-to-pick.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Reading-the-bones-series-bone-to-pick-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a dream come true for Peggy Henderson when her friend, Dr. Edwina McKay, lets her tag along to the Viking settlement at L\u2019Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site in Newfoundland, where Dr. McKay will be teaching archaeology field school for the summer. Peggy already knows a lot about archaeology\u2014having been on three previous excavations\u2014but does she need to brag about it so much? After alienating herself from the other students with her know-it-all attitude, Peggy accidentally discovers a Viking burial cairn. The students and archaeologists are ecstatic. But when it comes time to excavate, she\u2019s banned from participating in the dig. Will Peggy\u2019s trip to Newfoundland end just as badly as the Vikings\u2019 did? She\u2019s afraid it will\u2014that is until she learns an unexpected lesson from a Viking warrior. <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">KIRKUS REVIEW<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>At age 13, Peggy already has plenty of experience in archaeology, and she\u2019s determined to let everyone know it in this fourth series installment&#8230;Together with others in the series, this stands as an excellent vehicle to spur interest in archaeology and history.&nbsp; Read more&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/gina-mcmurchy-barber\/a-bone-to-pick-mcmurchy-barber\/\">https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/gina-mcmurchy-barber\/a-bone-to-pick-mcmurchy-barber\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a dream come true for Peggy Henderson when her friend, Dr. Edwina McKay, lets her tag along to the Viking settlement at L\u2019Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site in Newfoundland, where Dr. McKay will be teaching archaeology field school for the summer. Peggy already knows a lot about archaeology\u2014having been on three previous excavations\u2014but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/books\/a-bone-to-pick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Bone to Pick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/764"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}