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Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Young Wendy had a rare eye for unusual. She was always on the hunt for anything and everything -- gnarly rocks, buds and burrs, the brilliant blue of a jay's feather. When a class trip takes her to Alberta's amazing bonebed, a place known for its dinosaur fossils, twelve-year-old Wendy makes her first major discovery: a piece of fossilized coral from 100 million years ago! From then on, Wendy spends her time among the windswept hoodoos, searching...
4) One way out
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First Pocket Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. Okay, maybe two: to get his genius kid-sister, L.B., to leave him alone. But his summer falls apart when his real-life dinosaur expedition turns out to be a bust, and he watches his dreams go up in a cloud of asthma-inducing dust. Even worse, his grandmother, Hammy, is sick, and no one will talk to Peter or L.B. about it. Perhaps his days as a scientist aren't quite behind...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Uses hands-on activities to present information about dinosaurs and to show how paleontologists study the prehistoric creatures.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 28 cm
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.
11) Link: a novel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 384 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the English girl whose discovery of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton in 1811 when she was twelve led to a life-long interest in fossils and other important discoveries.
14) Dinosaur fossils
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
15) Digging up love
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a dinosaur bone discovery brings together baker Alisha Blake and paleontologist Quentin Harris in her rural Illinois hometown, both Alisha and Quentin must weigh their future plans against their budding relationship.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
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...
17) Dinosaur hunting
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book describes the work of paleontologists as they find dinosaur fossils.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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...
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