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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"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....
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Series
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.
Author
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Books / Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, a.k.a. Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers--not to mention a lake monster--are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem.
4) Bone digger
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Eons past, an ancient creature the size of a bunkhouse lived out a solitary life and died all alone in a rugged canyon. Millennia later that canyon occupied an isolated corner of C. L. McSween's Rocking S. Ranch. Then McSween decied to dam up the canyon to provide water for his cattle. Paleontologist from back east, discovers the cache of bones from this long-dead Jurassic monster, he realizes they are a priceless treasure trove. C. L. McSween and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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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Thorndike Press large print basic
When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast she sets the religious fathers on edge the townspeople to vicious gossip and the scientific world alight. Luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally
When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast she sets the religious fathers on edge the townspeople to vicious gossip and the scientific world alight. Luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When two suspicious deaths occur in the Bears Ears area, Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito must use all their experience, skill, and intuition to find justice.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking...
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