If you want young readers to read soemthing, let them read a brand new book called The Genius of Ancient Man by Don Landis. It paints a whole different view of “neanderthal” men. They weren’t the big ugly stupid brutes that modern textbook indoctrination teaches. Well they might have been ugly, who knows? They were highly skilled and extraordinarily intelligent and this books explains why the modern textbook indoctrination viewpoint about neanderthals is wrong. Research and real science points to the fact that ancient man may have been far suerior in hunter skills, survail skills, and general intelligence than modern man. How did thye larn to make weapons? Steel? Bronze? How did they learn to hunt so efficeintly and even kill large animals like the T Rex when they were so small? These men were smart. Smarter than many I know today probably. At least they knew that their campfires were mere fires and never tried to profit off of carbon useage.