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"A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil...
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IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1060L
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English
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Born on February 12, 1873, Barnum Brown was an explorer from the very beginning. His love of dinosaurs brought him to New York City, where he went to work for the American Museum of Natural History. His job was to search for dinoausr fossils. He became one of the best dinosaur finders, and many of his discoveries are in the museum.
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
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Documents the work of an early twentieth-century paleontologist, named after the famous circus icon by his ambitious parents, who grew up to work for the American Museum of Natural History and discovered the first documented skeletons of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and other noteworthy species.
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