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English
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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...
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
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Language
English
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"Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life."--
"Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life. This graphic biography follows...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"A fascinating, highly visual biography of Mary Anning, the Victorian fossil hunter who changed scientific thinking about prehistoric life and would become one of the most celebrated paleontologists of all time. Mary Anning grew up on the south coast of England in a region rich in fossils. As teenagers, she and her brother Joseph discovered England's first complete ichthyosaur. Poor and uneducated, Anning would become one of the most celebrated paleontologists...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"At home in her seaside town in England, little Mary Anning stared out her window. Unlike other children, Mary couldn't wait for a rainy day. Because when it rained ... the bones were revealed. With her father and brother, Mary would go out searching the damp soil after a storm, with the hopes of finding something nobody had seen before: a dinosaur. After her father dies, Mary must continue her search, picking up his tools and venturing out alone....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a kid, Mary Anning loved hunting for fossils with her father. One day, that hobby led to an unexpected discovery: the skeleton of a creature no one had never seen before! Mary had unearthed a dinosaur fossil, the first to ever be discovered. Her find reshaped scientific beliefs about the natural world and led to the beginning of a brand new field of study: paleontology. For the rest of her life, Mary continued to make astonishing finds and her...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by male scientists of the time, and she received little credit...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher. The life of the "King of Collectors" is every bit as fascinating as the mighty bones and fossils he unearthed. Hatcher helped discover and mount much of the Carnegie Museum's world famous, 150 million-year-old skeleton of Diplodocus, a slender-necked, long-tailed, plant-eater whose skeleton has captivated our...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the true story of the race between two paleontologists to find dinosaur fossils in this nonfiction picture book. O. C. Marsh and Edward Cope met in 1863 and bonded over their shared love of fossils, becoming the best of friends. Until one day Marsh discovered an error in Cope's work, and the Bone Wars began! Marsh and Cope raced each other around the world, excavating fossils and trying to find the most important never-before-seen discoveries"...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the true story of a scientist named Mary Anning. The fossils she found helped invent the science of palaeontology. If you've heard of Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs or Pterosaurs you already know her work but there's so much that's been hidden or forgotten. Here's some things you'll discover: As a one-year-old, lightning struck Mary but it could not kill her. When she was 12 she found the bones of a creature no one had ever seen before....
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In 2010, the Royal Society named Mary Anning one of the 10 British women most influential in the history of science. Though she wasnt appreciated in her time because she was a woman, Anning certainly earned this distinction. Readers are introduced to one of the premier fossil hunters of 19th century England through biography, historic images, and detailed sidebars. Anning learned how to find and clean fossils from her father and began doing so when...
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