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1) Dinosaur boy
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Series
Dinosaur boy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
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Sprouting a tail and spikes over the summer before fifth grade, Sawyer, a boy with the dinosaur gene, is bullied in school, but when his tormentors begin to disappear, it is up to Sawyer, his best friend Elliot, and a mysterious new girl to rescue them from a galactically horrible fate.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 44
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.
4) Maiasaura
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Learn about the incredible dinosaur known as Maiasaura." --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Think you know about dinosaurs? Think again! New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Steve Brusatte brings young scientists and readers everywhere into his world of massive herbivores and fearsome predators, daily unexpected discoveries, and all the new science used to learn about some of the world's oldest beings."--Google Books.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Cam and Eric go on a field trip to the museum with their fifth grade class, Cam-with her photographic memory-makes an interesting discovery: dinosaur bones are missing from one of the exhibits. When no one believes them, they decide to catch the thieves themselves. As they stake out the library, a mysterious milk truck stops by. Cam knows something is wrong. The logo on the truck does not match the logo on the milk carton they drank from at lunch....
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Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
11) Thunder run
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Now that she has found her brother Montez, Magdalys and her squad have embarked on a secret mission for General Grant, taking them deep into the Louisiana swamplands, to New Orleans, and eventually to the Mexican border where Imperial troops are forming an alliance with the Confederates in pursuit of spreading slavery--and once more Magdalys will have to use her telepathic link to the dinosaurs to save herself, her squad, and the union she believes...
12) Chronal Engine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle...
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English
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No one cares that you cured cancer if you also cloned a horde of dinosaurs and let them rampage down the street. Supergenius and quasi-villain Rex normally can’t go a week without accidentally endangering Decimen City with her science shenanigans. It’s been two weeks since her genetically engineered dinosaurs rampaged through town--a good streak for her--but the peace is broken when actual villain Last Dance sets his sights on Decimen. And he...
16) Freedom fire
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Description
Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are heading southwest on the back of Stella, the giant pteranodon, to find Montez, her brother, wounded during the siege of Vicksburg; now they are heading into the heart of the fighting, depending on Magdalys's ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs--but one of the companions is not quite what she seems, and Magdalys's talent could make her a target for both sides.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth's very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can't resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only one man has gone before. Jules Verne takes young readers on one of the most incredible journeys ever imagined, from Iceland's frozen tundra far down into fantastic underground prehistoric worlds and back...
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Series
Jackaby volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
When dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind, Abigail and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby, investigators of the supernatural in 1892 New England, find themselves hunting for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.
Author
Publisher
Murdoch Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (344 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring exploration stories of natural scientists in the field from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries The history of natural science is often a case of truth being stranger than fiction, as is evidenced by these 22 rollicking tales of men and women risking life and limb in the name of science and the cause of the broadening of human knowledge. Among the tales are Maria Sibylla Merian, who, with her daughter, traveled to Surinam in 1699 to...
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