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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
American dinosaur hunters	Nathan Aaseng	Profiles the lives of ten important paleontologists, including Edward Hitchcock, Joseph Leidy, Barnum Brown, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Jack Horner.	OL15216044W
The mystery of the mammoth bones	James Giblin	Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "ma…	OL15964782W
Inside dinosaurs	Andra Serlin Abramson	Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History recreate the world of dinosaurs as it was over 250 million years ago.	OL16182519W
Wild Thing (Peter Brown #2)	Josh Bazell	It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but sel…	OL16184315W
Dragon Teeth	Michael Crichton	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…	OL17881779W
Project Pendulum	Robert Silverberg,Silverberg	Twins become involved in an experiment in time travel.	OL1960463W
Dinosaurs	Arnaud Plumeri	Zany paleontologist Indina Jones takes readers millions of years in the past as kid dinos show us what their lives were like.	OL19704779W
Dino treasures	Rhonda Lucas Donald	"Just as some people dig and look for pirate treasure, some scientists dig and look for treasures, too. These treasures may not be gold or jewels but fossils. Following in the footsteps of Dino Track…	OL21181605W
Bones, bones, dinosaur bones	Byron Barton	A cast of characters looks for, finds, and assembles some dinosaur bones.	OL2463630W
The Fossil Feud	Meish Goldish	The Fossil Feud recounts the rivalry between two competing paleontologists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. In the mid-19th Century, Marsh and Cope stopped at nothing-from spying, brib…	OL2638321W
Théo et la paléontologue	Mélanie Perreault	Une série de plaquettes didactiques visant à présenter divers métiers par le biais d'une mésaventure enfantine prenant place dans une famille de trois enfants. Des illustrations de type manga accompa…	OL27038722W
Reading between the bones	Susan Clinton	Profiles eight of the people whose study of dinosaurs has shaped the field of paleontology over the past two hundred years.	OL2714918W
Timefall	James Kahn	It has been years since Joshua the Scribe, Lon the Vampire, Jasmine the Neuroman, and Beauty the Centaur journeyed to save their lost families from the strange Queen in the City With No Name. And as …	OL3012240W
Dinosaur scientist	Thom Holmes	"Explores the science of and careers in paleontology using several examples of real-life scientists"--Provided by publisher.	OL3260340W
A day in the life of a museum curator	Judith Tropea	Describes the work of Niles Eldredge, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, including his field work in search of invertebrate fossils.	OL4448828W
Stone girl, bone girl	Laurence Anholt,Sheila Moxley	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.	OL459923W
Mary Anning and the sea dragon	Jeannine Atkins	An account of the finding of the first entire skeleton of an ichthyosaur, an extinct sea reptile, by a twelve-year-old English girl who went on to become a paleontologist.	OL548826W
Shadow Bones (Great Lakes Legends #2) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense)	Colleen Rhoads	There were diamonds in that old family mine, Skye Blackbird was sure of it. She'd be able to prove it, too, and fulfill her Ojibwa chieftain father's dream, if it weren't for paleontologist Jake Baxt…	OL5823459W
Dinosaur Fossils	Leonie Bennett	This easily read text explains how a dinosaur became a fossil—from just after the animal's death, when its bones were cleaned by scavengers, to the build up of layers and layers of earth that eventua…	OL5837361W
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt	William Nothdurft	"The Date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a …	OL8036788W