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Author
Series
FunJungle volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The local police prove unhelpful when a 500-pound dinosaur skull vanishes from a secret excavation on Sage's family's ranch, so Teddy and his friends conduct their own investigation.
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind, Abigail and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby, investigators of the supernatural in 1892 New England, find themselves hunting for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"You won't believe why the Old Scientist swallowed a dinosaur, a fern, a rock, a pick, a dustpan, a sifting screen, a pen, and a magnifying glass!"--
Author
Series
Daily Bark volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Bob, the stationmaster's dog at Puddle Train Station and travel cooresponent for the Daily Bark, gets the scoop of a lifetime when he unearths a Dinosaur Skeleton.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Helping the science museum unveil a new dinosaur skeleton, George notices that the specimen is missing one bone, so he teams up with the man with the yellow hat to retrace their steps and discover where the bone went missing.
Author
Series
Museum kittens volume 1
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"One stormy night, a little black kitten named Peter appears on the museum steps. Tabby cat Tasha is delighted to show Peter the museum's hallways and secret corners, but her siblings, Bianca and Boris, aren't as happy to welcome the new arrival. Determined to prove that Peter is just as much of a museum kitten as the others, Tasha takes him on a hunt for rats. When there's a mishap in the Dinosaur Gallery, all of the kittens must work together to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Learning about paleontology and fossil hunting under renowned scientist Dr. Iris Prez while attending summer camp in Colorado, the Aldens investigate an outbreak of strange events that local superstition attributes to a bigfoot creature roaming the valley.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Surprises are in store as Stink excavates his backyard in search of a relic from an extinct beast -- and Judy lends him a little sleight of hand. Mega-chomp! Stink wants to make the find of the century. He's on a dig, dig, digging quest in his backyard to find a tooth from a saber-toothed cat, otherwise known as a Smilodon. Why not? Two kids in Michigan found a mastodon bone in a backyard stream, and a girl in Great Britain found a pterosaur bone....
10) The deepest dig
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a real-life 2015 discovery by a farmer in Michigan, this is a story about a boy named Caden who digs up a prehistoric woolly mammoth skeleton in his backyard. A recent heavy rain has exposed a bit of something in the yard, which Caden notices and resolves to dig up. He attempts to enlist the help of the adults in his life, who humorously dismiss his discovery. His classroom teacher jokes, "If you had found one of those, I'd eat my hat."...
11) Here we go digging for dinosaur bones: (sung to the tune of "here we go round the mulberry bush")
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Young paleontologists are invited on a fossil dig, set to the tune of Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush. Hike the trail, scan the ground, and make a find--then discover how to build a dinosaur from its bones. Includes song motions and bite-size science sidebars. This is a fun and distinctive young dinosaur book."--
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 3
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Everyone in second grade seems set on breaking a world record and friends Ivy and Bean are no exception, deciding to become the youngest people ever to discover a dinosaur skeleton.
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