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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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...
2) Finding Esme
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Twelve-year-old Esme and her best friend, Finch, discover dinosaur bones on her family's peach farm and are suddenly surrounded by people with nefarious motives"--
3) Fossil
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"When a boy and his dog go for a hike, the boy trips on a fossil, and it comes to life, revealing an ancient plant. The boy is so intrigued that he breaks two more fossils that come to life a dragonfly and a pteranodon. When these prehistoric creatures collide with present reality, the boy must figure out a way to make things go back to normal."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Soon after paleontologist Norman "Pick" Pickford happens on a discovery in Montana that could prove to be revolutionary, a menacing visitor is murdered and Mike Wire, retired L.A. homicide detective and ranch foreman, realizes that the fossils may be worth killing for.
Author
Series
Funjungle novel volume 06
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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
A Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 7
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a class trip to Rainbow Rock State Park, Arthur and Buster uncover a rare fossil but have second thoughts about sharing their discovery with the park's paleontologists.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 3
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Pirates of Montana volume 1
Publisher
Inkshares, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023].
Description
Rome, A.D. 306. Emperor Constantine converts the Roman Empire to Christianity. Over the next two decades, his armies destroy pagan idols across Europe and the Middle East. England, A.D. 1830. Paleontologist Mary Anning writes to Sir Richard Owen, describing a fossil that she discovered in the cliffs of Lyme-Regis. She writes that the fossil is a large wing made of black bone. Montana, A.D. 2023. Sixteen-year-old Molly Wilder discovers a mysterious...
11) Boundary
Author
Publisher
Distribted by Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
What is a paleontologist doing on Mars? Pushing her boundaries. . . . Problematica, n: a term used in paleontology to refer to fossils that appear to be either of unknown taxonomic origin, or whose occurrence in the location they are found contradicts current beliefs of the field. The find was made by a teenager. A "funny fossil" no one had seen before out in the middle of the Arizona desert. And right in the middle of controversy: the strangely shaped...
Author
Series
Museum kittens volume 1
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2021, 2020.
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...
13) Fossil frenzy
Author
Series
Hardy boys secret files volume 14
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A missing dinosaur tooth makes for a massive investigation in this Hardy Brothers Secret Files Mystery. Frank and Joe are excited for their field trip to the Bayport Museum of Natural History with their science club. Not only will they get to see some awesome dinosaur skeletons on display, but they also get to go on their very own fossil dig on the museum grounds. At the dig, fellow classmate Tico uncovers an old dinosaur tooth--even though Tico's...
Author
Series
Judy Moody and friends volume 11
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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....
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 32
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Geronimo gets lost looking for hidden treasures in the Gobi Desert, he comes across giant dinosaur bones.
Author
Series
Daily Bark volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Bob, the stationmaster's dog at Puddle Train Station and travel correspondent for the Daily Bark, gets the scoop of a lifetime when he unearths a Dinosaur Skeleton.
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