Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARHoffman, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Webb Research Group 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 553.8 HOFQuinn, Jordan.
Summary: Eight-year-old Lucas, Prince of Wrenly, is eager to explore and Clara, daughter of the queen's seamstress, knows the kingdom well, so they team up to find a lost jewel and visit all of the land's main attractions as they search.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC QUIRayner, Abigail
Summary: When Eliza Jane Murphy--line leader, captain of the worm rescue team--impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom's "Exploring Green" display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back...But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAYRayner, Abigail
Summary: When Eliza Jane Murphy--line leader, captain of the worm rescue team--impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom's "Exploring Green" display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back ... But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: Describes fifteen varieties of rocks and minerals, five kinds of fossils, and six types of arrowheads and artifacts, explaining what they look like, where to find them, and what they are used for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 552.0075 EVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J552 EVEAustin, Blair
Summary: "In a city far in the future, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. A line of mosquitos in uniforms and reglia, honored as heroes of the last great war. Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world - the conflict that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSPuleo, Stephen
Summary: "On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PULLendroth, Susan
Summary: Set to the tune of "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush," budding paleontologists and dinosaur fans will go on an exciting fossil dig -- hiking the trail, scanning the ground, and making a find -- then discovering how to build a T. Rex from its bones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG LENHarris, Robert
Summary: 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARCrichton, Michael
Summary: A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRIKirk, Jay.
Summary: An account of the life of the famed explorer and taxidermist assesses his influence on American views about natural-world conservation, covering his dangerous pursuits of wildlife for his dioramas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 KIRStensaas, Mark.
Contents: Beach profiles (Corner of the Lake ; Kitchi Gammi Park ; Stoney Point ; Burlington Bay ; Flood Bay ; Gooseberry Falls State Park ; Split Rock River ; Beaver River ; Tettegouche State Park ; Good Harbor Bay ; Grand Marais Harbor ; Paradise Beach) -- Tips for rock pickers -- Lake Superior's geologic roots -- Basalt -- Ophitic basalt -- Diabase -- Gabbro -- Rhyolite -- Granite -- Vesicular basalt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kollath-Stensaas 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 552.097 STEKurtz, Jane
Summary: "Discover the true story of the race between two paleontologists to find dinosaur fossils in this nonfiction picture book. O. C. Marsh and Edward Cope met in 1863 and bonded over their shared love of fossils, becoming the best of friends. Until one day Marsh discovered an error in Cope's work, and the Bone Wars began! Marsh and Cope raced each other around the world, excavating fossils and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 560.92 KUROrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ORANicolay, H. H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. S. Barnes 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 549 NICSearfoss, Glenn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.0447 SEAGrice, Gordon (Gordon D.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of American History, Behring Center 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 LUBClements, Andrew
Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CLEGauthier, Kevin.
Summary: "This guidebook is for anyone who has walked along a Lake Superior beach, picked up a stone, and wondered, "What is this?" Bruce Mueller and Kevin Gauthier researched Lake Superior's entire shoreline to create this thorough and accessible volume. With great detail and helpful illustrations, they describe the kind of rocks you'll find - including copper, iron, and gold - provide hints for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2007
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Summary: The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.632 NABLiu, Linda
Summary: "When a small pebble sees others gathering on the steps of the Museum of Rocks, he grows curious. Once inside the esteemed halls, he is shocked by what he discovers. The only rocks on display are glittering gemstones, geodes, and crystals! These beautiful stones make him wonder: Can he be special, too? Perhaps he'll find an answer in the World's Most Beautiful Gem exhibition ... or maybe, just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUBird, James
Summary: After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a "boot camp" at the Ojibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022