Fossil Fever
Fossil Fever

Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2010-05-19

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 0307556239

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Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum. That means he’s always zooming off to strange places to find ruins and treasure. But Jeff has never gone along—until now. They’re headed to the Sahara desert to search for dinosaur fossils. And Jeff knows he’ll find the bones of the biggest meat-eater ever! “The subject’s popularity, and Bogan’s colorful cartoon-style illustrations will attract beginning readers.”—Booklist

Fossils
Fossils

Author: Kirsty Holmes

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1538270471

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Fossils are our key to the far past. Remains or even just traces of life from earlier eras have allowed us to reconstruct various times and places far different from our modern period. The most famous, perhaps, are those fossils that dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures left behind. In this high-interest volume, readers will gain an understanding of different kinds of fossils as well as how scientists locate and uncover them. Eye-popping pictures, succinct fact boxes, and enlightening captions make this beautifully designed book a standout. Future paleontologists will find their curiosity piqued about what fossils are under their own feet!

Discovering Fossils
Discovering Fossils

Author: Frank A. Garcia

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780811728003

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Complete beginner's guide, with vertebrate and invertebrate fossil descriptions.

Fossil Whisperers
Fossil Whisperers

Author: Herb Hicks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-07-23

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1532053347

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The Civil War has just ended as a fervent interest in the exploration of fossils in the American West begins. Two paleontologistsOthniel Marsh of Yale College and Edward Cope of the Academy of Natural Sciencesare infected with fossil hunting fever. Eventually the antagonistic competitors publish their findings in scientific journals which instigates the Great Dinosaur Rush, also known as the Bone Wars. Jake Harding, a student at Yale, joins the 1870 scientific expedition to the West headed by Professor Marsh. Captivated by the wonders of the western frontier, Jake takes up permanent residence at a Wyoming ranch and soon meets Jen, a feisty frontier woman who steals his heart. While Jake faces the perils of challenging terrains, harsh weather, deadly encounters with bandits, and a skirmish with Indians as he feeds his fossil hunting addiction, he wonders about his competence as a student of paleontology and life. When tragedy strikes, Jake is left at the mercy of his memory as he attempts to recall his purpose and somehow find his way back home. In this historical adventure, an intelligent and determined 1870s fossil hunter journeys through the American West as he follows his dream to find romance and disaster.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1963-04

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.

Dinosaur Alert!
Dinosaur Alert!

Author: Carolyn Keene

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-11-16

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 0743427726

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NANCY DISCOVERS DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS IN HER OWN BACKYARD! The most annoying boys in Nancy's class offer her a deal. If she can prove that a giant footprint they've found on the school grounds was really made by a dinosaur, they'll stop teasing her and her friends -- forever! Always ready to take on a case, Nancy agrees, though she thinks the boys are wrong. Dinosaurs never roamed River Heights -- or did they? But then she gets a mean note: "Don't go where you don't belong!" When Nancy finds huge footprints in her own backyard, she's hunting everywhere for answers. It's a monster of a mystery, and she doesn't have a zillion years to solve it!

Apollo 13 (Totally True Adventures)
Apollo 13 (Totally True Adventures)

Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0385391277

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Could you survive an outer-space disaster? Aspiring astronauts and young explorers will love this out-of-this-world Totally True Adventure. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise blasted off for the Moon on April 11, 1970. But after a disastrous explosion damaged their spacecraft, the three men had only one goal: to get back home safely. This informational text makes space travel exciting and accessible for younger readers and features illustrations, photographs, a map, and additional Story Behind the Story facts. Perfect for readers of the I Survived series and the Who Was series, Totally True Adventures are captivating nonfiction stories with not-to-be-missed bonus content.

The First Human
The First Human

Author: Ann Gibbons

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2007-04-10

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 140007696X

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In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the “missing link”–the fossil of the earliest human ancestor–Gibbons ventures to Africa, where she encounters a fascinating array of fossil hunters: Tim White, the irreverent Californian who discovered the partial skeleton of a primate that lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia; French paleontologist Michel Brunet, who uncovers a skull in Chad that could date the beginnings of humankind to seven million years ago; and two other groups–one led by zoologist Meave Leakey, the other by British geologist Martin Pickford and his French paleontologist partner, Brigitte Senut–who enter the race with landmark discoveries of their own. Through scrupulous research and vivid first-person reporting, The First Human reveals the perils and the promises of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale.