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Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
3) Mary Anning
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
From prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, this riveting narrative follows a fearless paleontologist who, after unearthing the first T-Rex fossils, saved NY's struggling American Museum of Natural History.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Every budding paleontologist has to know all of the big, complicated dinosaur names and terms, and National Geographic Kids is here to help. Little kids will love showing off their advanced vocabulary skills with National Geographic Kids Big Words for Little Paleontologists"--
7) Threshold
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 2
Publisher
Baen Pub. Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
As Helen Sutter, her super-sensor expert husband and their friends race to find caches of profitable alien technologies on the mysterious asteroid Ceres, an all-out interplanetary war threatens to break out as more and more enterprising people try to mine the technologies.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
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. 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
Series
Studies in scandal novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Geologist Gemma Hastings has no interest in pursuing romance--and no patience for Lord Cameron Lisle, an esteemed fossil hunter who has a way of always honing in on her territory. . .annoyingly handsome though he may be. But when a shocking attack puts Gemma in very real danger, she may have to accept Lisle's offers of protection. Even if that means entering into a dangerous flirtation... Lisle was once amused by Gemma's dedication to her work. But...
14) Digging up love
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From debut author Chandra Blumberg comes a playful, heartfelt romance about chasing your dreams and finding love in the process. Alisha Blake works her magic in the kitchen, creating delectable desserts for her grandfather s restaurant in rural Illinois. Though Alisha relishes the close relationship she has with her family, she can t help but dream about opening a cookie shop in Chicago. She may be a small-town baker, but Alisha has big ambitions....
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dinosaurs existed. That's a fact we accept today. But not so long ago, the concept that these giant creatures could have roamed Earth millions of years before humans was unfathomable. People thought what we know as dinosaur bones were the bones of giant humans. Of large elephants. Of angels, even. So, how did we get from angel wings to the T-Rex? The First Dinosaur tells the story of the idea of dinosaurs, and the chain of fossil discoveries and...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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. In...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Explore
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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...
19) Dinosaurs
Author
Series
Dinosaurs (Arnaud Plumeri) volume 2
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Paleontologist Indino Jones goes up against the mighty Albertosaurus.
Author
Series
Dinosaurs (Arnaud Plumeri) volume 3
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Everybody knows the Brontosaurs, but what about the Mamenchisaurus? The third chapter in the DINOSAURS saga delves deeper into the world of these fearsome lizards, exploring rarely discussed creatures like the Cryolophosaurus, taking a look at the spines of the Stegosaurus, and asking important questions like "What happened when a dinosaur had a toothache?" DINOSAURS is your guided tour through the rough-and-tumble world of the mightiest beasts to...
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