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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist's disppearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon to be opened as a theme park. But as always there is a dark side and after a catastrophe destroys the park's defense systems, the scientists and tourists are left fighting for survival.
Author
Series
Weird West tales volume 4
Publisher
Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Doc Holliday, in 1885, gets a new lease on life when he teams up with a succession of historical figures to battle the enemies of a steampunk America. This time he enters the world of American paleontology, aided by the great Apache medicine man, Geronimo.
Author
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The South Pacific Archipelago is home to a tiny island community of around three hundred scientists... and twenty thousand dinosaurs. As a paleogeneticist, Kit Sterling leads a team studying the dinosaurs to unlock the unanswered questions of evolution. But there is something more dangerous than dinosaurs on the islands. Head ranger Logan Beck discovers evidence of poachers, while rumors of a black market for dinosaur leather swirl around the community....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
¿Qué mascota elige un dinosaurio? ¿Tal vez un tiburón hambriento...porque siempre ha querido un acuario? ¿Será que elige dos cebras y dos tortugas también? ¿Crees que eso está bien?
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