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Author
Series
Michael Crichton volume 26
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, 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...
5) Fossil
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm
Language
English
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
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
58 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Arthur's third-grade class goes hunting for fossils at Rainbow Rock State Park, his friend Buster actually finds one, and instead of turning it in Buster decides to take it home--but he soon regrets his decision.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
60 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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....
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 139
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Aldens visit a dinosaur dig in Montana and soon become involved in a mystery involving missing dinosaur bones"--
11) Too big to hide
Author
Series
Dino files volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
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.
12) The first dog
Author
Language
English
Description
Kip the Cave Boy and Paleowolf each face hunger and danger on a journey in Paleolithic times, and when they decide to join forces and help one another, Paleowolf becomes the first dog.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Dinosaur Club volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
94 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jamie, a member of the Dinosaur Club. They are a network of kids around the world who love to share dinosaur knowledge, help identify fossils, post dino discoveries, and chat about all things prehistoric. Jamie has just moved to Ammonite Bay, a stretch of coastline famous for its fossils. He is busy exploring when he discovers some dinosaur footprints and is transported back to the time of the dinosaurs! It sounds like Jamie needs some help...
Author
Series
FunJungle volume 6
Language
English
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
Geronimo Stilton. Cavemice volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
113 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton's ancestor, Geronimo Stiltonoot, investigates a witness's claim of a moving mountain of ice.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Cavemice volume 6
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor Geronimo Stiltonoot is back in another prehistoric adventure! It's the night of the big Cavemouse Idol competition, but Geronimo Stiltonoot isn't there. He has a cold, and goes to bed early. So when it's discovered that the contest's valuable grand prize has been stolen, Geronimo is the main suspect! He must prove his innocence . . . or he'll end up in enormouse trouble!" --
Author
Series
Dino files volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
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.
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