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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1060L
Language
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever unearthed. Named in Sue's honor, Sue the T. rex would be placed...
Author
Lexile measure
GN 740L
Language
English
Description
"When Jack Horner was a child, he was fascinated by dinosaur fossils. He hunted for them and dreamed of being a great paleontologist. But Jack struggled with school and reading. Jack found his own way to success and became one of the world's most famous paleontologist!"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
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Darwin's theory of evolution, published in 1859, shook up the field of paleontology, the study of ancient plants and animals. Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, enthralled with these new ideas, discoveries, and developments, became determined to become world-famous paleontologists. When they met in 1863, they started off as friends. But within a few years, competition drove them apart. Each fought bitterly to discover more fossils, name...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon."
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the great explorer-adventurer, who discovered huge finds of dinosaur bones in Mongolia, pioneered modern paleontology field research, and became the director of the American Museum of Natural History.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A biography of the scientist-adventurer, Roy Chapman Andrews, focusing on the expeditions he led for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
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.
19) The bone wars
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A true adventure story full of trains, explosives, sneaky tactics, spying, and dinosaurs! The Bone Wars tells the true story of the battle to be the most famous dinosaur hunter in the world! The "Great Dinosaur Rush" was an amazing time in U.S. history when the hunt for dinosaurs really began. Would the two gentlemen scientists who led the hunt play nicely and work together or would their desperation to be the best lead them to behave very, very...
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