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1) Fossil fever
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jeff must learn patience when he accompanies his uncle on an expedition to hunt for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara Desert. Based on the real discovery of Afrovenator by Paul Sereno in 1993.
3) Big tree
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees"--
Author
Series
Treasures of the Earth volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Anna Lakeman has spent her life working alongside her paleontologist father. When they find dinosaur bones, a rich investor tries to take over their dig. As Anna fights for recognition of her work and reconnects with an old beau, tensions mount and secrets are unburied. How can they keep the perils of the past from threatening their renewed affection?"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In their long journey from San Francisco to Lusk, Wyoming, in 1889, David (Siu-Long) Wong and his parents have encountered terrible prejudice because they are Chinese immigrants; but here they are given a job at John Bell Hatcher's paleontological excavation digging up dinosaur bones, including an eight-foot long Triceratops skull, and David becomes fascinated by dinosaurs and resolves to become a paleontologist. Includes historical note on J.B. Hatcher....
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Eighth-grader Max, his older brother Kyle, and new friend Petra travel in time to the Cretaceous period to rescue Kyle's twin, Emma, who was kidnapped from their grandfather's Texas ranch. Includes author's notes about the facts behind the story,
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Indians prepare to go to war against the white man.
Author
Series
Dino files volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When photographs of Peanut the dinosaur appear on the Web, Frank's father arrives in Wyoming with a story about the prehistoric reptile he saw nearby twenty years earlier.
15) Ghost horses
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tabitha, the daughter of a preacher who believes science is Satan's work, longs to study at a university and dig for dinosaur bones, but in South Dakota at the end of the nineteenth century such ambitions are discouraged.
16) A mysterious egg
Author
Series
Dino files volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
During a summer at his grandparents' dinosaur museum and dig, the Dinosaur Education Center of Wyoming, Frank, aided by his cousin Sam and cat Saurus, cares for a newly-hatched dinosaur while trying to keep its existence secret, both from his grandparents and from the neighbors.
Author
Series
PaleoJoe's dinosaur detective club volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Description
PaleoJoe, his eleven-year-old assistant Shelly, her classmate Dakota, and new friend Sarra fly to California to investigate a mystery involving Sarra's brother, saber-tooth fossils, and the La Brea Tar Pits.
18) Too big to hide
Author
Series
Dino files volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nine-year-old Frank, his cousin Sam, and cat Saurus's efforts to keep Peanut the newly-hatched dinosaur's existence a secret become more complicated when their grandmother finds a new fossil that looks like Peanut's horn, but a thousand times bigger, and a crew comes to make a movie about it.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Presents the journal of a paleozoologist who departed England in 1850 on a journey around the world seeking to learn the ways and fates of the most ancient creatures, accompanied by a strange pet, Gibear, and with the chiding voice of his mother often in his ear.
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