Lynn Zimmermann is a mother, grandmother, former teacher, school principal, district curriculum director, and university instructor. She believes that kids live fully in the present, look forward to their future, and love stories that bring to life long-ago times and places that might otherwise lie buried in the past.
Lynn lives in Northwestern California where she has spent years observing kids at play in their environment—building shelters of driftwood, fallen branches or packed snow, sparking fires and problem solving to gather resources. She wondered if they would enjoy stories about how prehistoric and ancient young people might have done the same.
With the help of her childhood friend, playwright Bill Harrar, Lynn set out to write a collection of six stories featuring young people on the brink of adulthood who face the challenges of their times and places with amazing ingenuity and courage.
Based on historical records, combined with the humor and imagination of a playwright, Lynn and Bill created these coming -of- age stories set around the Mediterranean Sea Basin, from the Stone Age to classical Greece (40,000 BCE to 500 BCE) that are presented in chronological order.
