num_pages: 384
description: A major children's novel set in the Black Hills.In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Native Americans prepare to go to war against the US government.
language: English
title: The Bone Wars
titlecomplete: The Bone Wars
genres: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 48
places: Black Hills, South Dakota
publisher: Puffin Books