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1) 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
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...
4) 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...
5) Portal
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Madeline Fathom and the stranded members of the Odin vessel struggle to survive the lethal elements of Europa while attempting to repair an escape shuttle, an effort that is further complicated by the discovery of a formidable trap.
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
Earth before us volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ronnie is just a normal fifth-grader trying to pass her science class's impossible quiz on the history of dinosaurs... until she happens upon her neighbor -- Ms. Lernin -- a retired paleontologist. With the assistance of Science Magic, Ronnie and Ms. Lernin travel back through time and space to experience the Mesozoic Era firsthand. They visit three important time periods in the development of the Mesozoic Era: the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the...
10) Mammal takeover!
Author
Series
Earth before us volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"After the dinosaurs died out, Earth was by no means empty. There were still some little resourceful critters around who, without big predators to hunt them down, survived and thrived. Who were these scrappy creatures? Early mammals, our ancestors! In the Cenozoic Era, mammals rose to dominance and spread over the globe, resulting in woolly mammoths, saber- toothed tigers, and eventually all of humankind. In this adventure, Ronnie will meet the three...
11) Set in stone
Author
Series
Treasures of the earth volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When paleontologist Martha Jankowski discovers an intact dinosaur skeleton, she has the opportunity to make a name for herself, but only if she can uncover the full skeleton before another competing dig. As she races against the clock, she meets a man who shares her passion for science and faith--but is he friend or foe?"--
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