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Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive guide to paleontology for young readers, which explains how to dig for fossils, clean them, keep records, and develop and test theories and describes projects from the authors' experience, including the excavation of the Tyrannosaurus rex known as Sue.
62) Threshold
Author
Language
English
Description
When the strange fossil she's discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfident super-sensor expert for the only private agency in space--the Ares Corporation--and your best friend is a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly created and already emabttled Interplanetary...
64) Dinosaurs
Series
Reference shelf volume 83, no. 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The articles collected in this volume ... are meant to give an overview of what we've come to learn about dinosaurs. Because our understanding grows and changes with each new discovery, the selections were culled exclusively from the past decade. Most are examples of what some would call "popular" science writing: pieces intended for anyone interested in the topic, not just experts." -- Preface
65) Ammonite
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...
66) Dinosaur hunting
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
"How do we know so much about dinosaurs? The answer: because palaeontologiststhe scientists who dig up the pasthave discovered so much! This book takes young readers through the process that scientists use when theyre on a digfrom the equipment used to the care exercised in actually digging up a fossil. Young readers will also learn about the kinds of places fossils have been found. The simple text and amazing illustrations make this book a must for...
68) Splinterlands
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Julian West is trying to survive in the Splinterlands, which is the shattered world order of 2050.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life on the ranch lands of Montana comes with more than its share of trouble. The cowboys who work this untamed stretch of the American West expect it - and some of them even enjoy it. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. Mike is soon to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Montana's big skies.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Join junior dinosaur expert Trek Henderson as he imagines dinosaurs in the real world! At bedtime, Mom reads Trek The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Trek drifts off and ends up in The Land of Dinoz where he meets new pals the Scare-Troodon, the Tin-Dromaeosaurus, and the Cowardly Stygimoloch. Together, they all head off to see the wizard and save him some wicked dinosaur skeletons.
73) Mary Anning
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Mary was little, her family was very poor. She used to help her dad to comb for shells and bones up high on dangerous cliffs. After receiving a book as a gift from a kind benefactor, Mary learned all about fossils. She continued to hunt for them and made the startling discovery of a complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur. Sadly, she wasn't allowed to study along with all the other men, but she carried on making her own discoveries - including dinosaur...
75) Fossil hunter
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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.
79) Fossil tales
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the science of paleontology by profiling a variety of famous fossil hunters and describing their discoveries.
80) Bringing up Baby
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
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