Summary: "An introduction to Sauropods, a group of dinosaurs that walked on four legs and that included the largest of all dinosaurs. Features include an original drawing of each dinosaur, fun facts, a glossary, and a list of additional resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.913 GIARosier, Maggie.
Summary: "Information accompanies step-by-step instructions on how to draw dinosaurs. The text level and subject matter are intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.6 ROSRandall, Lisa
Summary: "Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 RANOwen, Ruth
Summary: Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid crashed into Earth. Fires burned, smoke and ash covered the Sun, and the dinosaurs were doomed! Each title in this new series digs deep into one fascinating area of the Dinosphere. The expertly crafted text with strong visual cues to support new vocabulary will engage early readers as they build their reading confidence. This 24-page book features...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2019
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 567.9 OWEHyde, Natalie
Summary: Describes the formation and characteristics of dinosaur fossils and explains how they give us information about the history of the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.9 HYDOwen, Ruth
Summary: They may have been the biggest animals to ever walk the Earth, but every dinosaur began life as a tiny baby that hatched from an egg! Each title in this new series digs deep into one fascinating area of the Dinosphere. The expertly crafted text with strong visual cues to support new vocabulary will engage early readers as they build their reading confidence. This 24-page book features...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2019
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 567.9 OWNBrusatte, Stephen
Summary: A sweeping narrative scientific history that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science Nat BrusatteOwen, Ruth
Summary: How did dinosaurs protect themselves from enemies? What kinds of food did prehistoric animals eat? This title is bursting with weird and wonderful nuggets of information about dinosaurs of all kinds! Each title in this new series digs deep into one fascinating area of the Dinosphere. The expertly crafted text with strong visual cues to support new vocabulary will engage early readers as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2019
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 567.9 OWNHarrison, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clark City Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 HAR1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 814.54 HAR
Stine, Megan
Summary: The Age of Dinosaurs began about 250 million years ago. In the beginning they were quite small but over time they evolved into the varied and fascinating creatures that captivate our imaginations today. What we know about dinosaurs is evolving, too! We've learned that some dinosaurs were good parents, that dinosaurs could grow new teeth when old ones fell out, and that most dinosaurs walked on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Ancient What StineRieppel, Lukas
Summary: A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest businesstycoons. Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.75 RIESummary: The best minds in paleontology create a portrait of the prehistoric era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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Summary: Presents in question and answer format the world of dinosaurs and the various species of land, sea, and air creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2014
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Summary: Dinosaurs continue to fascinate kids, and although these amazing creatures roamed the Earth ages ago, new dinosaur discoveries are still being made today! The new edition of the popular Ultimate Dinopedia includes all the latest species and is the most complete, up-to-date dinosaur reference available. Find favorites, like the fierce T-rex and the gentle Brontosaurus, plus audacious new finds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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Summary: "In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. But then a twelve-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates-the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, Victorians unearthed enormous bones--bones that reached as high as a man's head. No one had ever seen such things. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Contents: Two years before the mast -- To Cuba and back: a vacation voyage -- Journal of a voyage round the world 1859-1860.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 DANDixon, Dougal.
Summary: Explores the restless life of hungry meat eaters and the perilous life of the plant eaters; reveals how they hunted, ate, and raised their young; and explains how paleontologists learn from fossils.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 567.9 DIXDark, Kimberly
Summary: "Collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably agin--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARK, KIMBERLY DARZalewski, Aubrey
Summary: "Examines the adaptations and life of poison dart frogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.8 ZALTaylor, Michael (Michael Hugh)
Summary: "When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the 'first' ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years--as the science of paleontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "Beginning with the earliest days of our lineage some 325 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the astonishingly diverse range of animals that dominate today's Earth. Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited through time, from ice ages to volcanic catastrophes. Entwined in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569 BRUCrane, Cody
Summary: What are fossils and how do they form? What kinds of fossils exist, and where are they found? This introduction to fossils covers the basics from the discovery of dinosaurs to the information fossils reveal about Earth's prehistoric past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J560 CRAMcDonald, Jill (Jill McDonald-Gomez)
Summary: "A kids' guide to dinosaurs and the Mesozoic era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.9 MCDPickrell, John.
Summary: From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters working at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2017