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Dinosaur Time

Arnold Lobel

Now young children can read about dinosaurs'even how to say their names'by themselves. 'Shouts of welcome will greet this new addition to the Early I Can Read series.' 'H. 'Excellent illustrations . . . a virtual necessity for any library that serves primary-grade children.' 'SL
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The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone

Stan Berenstain - Beginner Books
Format: Book

Stan and Jan Berenstain invite readers to help solve a mystery in this beloved Beginner Book. When a dinosaur bone goes missing from the Bear Museum, it's up to the Berenstain Bears to help crack the case. From the Mummy Room to the Hall of Famous Bears, the detectives seek every possible...
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Santasaurus

Niamh Sharkey - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Niamh Sharkey creates Christmas magic with her simple, quirky, and striking illustrations in this supersaurus story for dinosaur lovers - and believers - everywhere.. Christmas is coming to Dinosaur Town, and Ollie, Molly, and Milo are writing their letters to Santasaurus. Ollie wishes...
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How I Captured a Dinosaur

Henry Schwartz

Liz, who is fascinated by dinosaurs, finds a living Albertosaurus on a camping trip and brings it home to live with her.
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Tyrannosaurus Tex

Betty G Birney

Tyrannosaurus Tex, with his ten-thousand-gallon hat and his stories about Texas before the people came, proves himself a loyal friend to a group of cowboys out on the range leaving behind a new legend to be told around the campfire.
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Dinosaur Bones

Bob Barner - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures. Filled with fun dinosaur facts (a T. Rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds!)...
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Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones

Byron Barton - HarperFestival
Format: Hardcover

Six paleontologists search for bones. When they find them, they dig them up, wrap them, and load them on a truck, bound for the museum. With simple text and vibrant illustrations, young readers explore the process of finding and assembling bone fossils.Bones. Bones. We look for bones.We...
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I Dreamt I Was a Dinosaur

Stella Blackstone

A small boy dreams he is a dinosaur. Join him as he explores prehistoric landscapes meeting all sorts of giant, colorful, flying or spiny friends from Toby Pterodactyl to Hilary Hadrosaur. But beware of hungry Rex the Wrecker!
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When Dinosaurs Came with Everything (Junior Library Guild Selection)

Elise Broach - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Get a WHAT!? Free WHAT!? DINOSAURS? Just when a little boy thinks he's going to die of boredom from running errands with his mom, the most remarkable, the most stupendous thing happens. He discovers that on this day, and this day only, stores everywhere are giving away...
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Dinosaurs, Beware!: A Safety Guide

Marc Tolon Brown

Approximately sixty safety tips are demonstrated by dinosaurs in situations at home, during meals, camping, in the car, and in other familiar places.
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Big Old Bones: A Dinosaur Tale

Carol Carrick

Professor Potts finds some big old bones out West and has no end of trouble fitting them together. Young dinosaur experts will love being one step ahead of him. Full-color illustrations.
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Maisy Goes to the Museum: A Maisy First Experience Book

Lucy Cousins - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

From woolly mammoths to rocket ships, the marvels of a museum are more fun to explore when Maisy leads the way.On a rainy-day visit to the museum, Maisy and her friends explore everything from dinosaurs to a moon exhibit, from vintage vehicles to a giant dollhouse to the food exhibit. There's...
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Miss Malarkey's Field Trip

Judy Finchler - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Miss Malarkey is leaving the building. A field trip is the highlight of every school year. Students everywhere look forward to this break from the regular class routine.Miss Malarkey has never been in charge of running a class trip before. Bringing her students to the Science Center...
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Time Train

Paul Fleischman

A class takes a field trip back through time to observe living dinosaurs in their natural habitat
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Can I Have A Stegosaurus Mom

Lois G. Grambling - Troll Communications
Format: Hardcover

A little boy uses every argument he can think of--from the reasonable to the zany--to persuade his mother to let him have a stegosaurus. By the author of An Alligator Named . . . Alligator.
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Here Comes T. Rex Cottontail

Lois G. Grambling - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Peter Cottontail is out sick, and there's only one dinosaur who's up to the task of delivering his eggs on Easter—T. Rex! Although he may need a little practice at HOPPING to get rid of that WOBBLE.Join T. Rex and his friends as he saves the day in a very special way.Lois...
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Dinosaur Tamer

Carol Greathouse - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

A modern tall tale that brings together dinosaurs and cowboys. Back when the old, old west was still as green as a bristlecone pine and cowboys were as common as warts on a Stegosaurus, one cowboy stood out among all cowboys. With the strength of an Iguanodon and the speed of a Utah Raptor,...
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Brontorina

James Howe - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

From the sure-footed duo of James Howe and Randy Cecil comes a hugely endearing new character - in a humorous, heart-warming tale about holding on to your dreams.Brontorina has a dream. She wants to dance. But Brontorina is rather large - too large to fit in Madame Lucille's dance studio....
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Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo

William Joyce - Harper & Row
Format: Print book

While on safari in Africa with his family, young Scotty Lazardo finds a dinosaur who looks like his great-uncle Bob. Dinosaur Bob blows a mean trumpet, dances, and plays baseball. But most important, Dinosaur Bob is a pal. His adventures with the eccentric Lazardos will entertain children...
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Prehistoric Pinkerton

Steven Kellogg - Dial; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Pinkerton, the Greatest Dane puppy of them all is teething and nothing made of bone or wood is safe. Near chaos erupts when Pinkerton arrives with his mistress on a Dinosaur Day field trip to the museum. One of four Pinkerton books by Kellogg, an illustrator of children's book in the US. ...
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Dinosaur Dream

Robin Michal Koontz

A boy who loves dinosaurs is taken on a journey to their land one night.
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All Aboard the Dinotrain

Deb Lund - Harcourt Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

They stoke the boiler, stow the luggage, and when hills are steep, they even get out and push. That's right, the thrill-seeking daredevil dinosaurs from Dinosailors are back, and now they're riding a train. But this train is more like a roller coaster--up, down, and faster and faster,...
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Dinosailors

Deb Lund - Harcourt Children's Books; "A" First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Prepare for a high-rhyming, tummy-tickling, rip-snortingly hilarious tale of hijinks on the high seas when a crew of novice dinosailors set sail for adventure . . . only to find that something even better awaits them back home. Deb Lund has created a dinovoyage of epic proportions, an outrageous...
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Too Big!

Claire Masurel - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

When Charlie wins at the carnival, he chooses the biggest prize of all-a big, blue and white dinosaur. But soon Charlie finds that Big Tex is too big to go to the park, and he must take Bunny instead. Big Tex is also too big to go to the store, so Charlie takes Teddy. It seems Big Tex is too big to go anywhere!...
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T Is for Terrible

Peter McCarty - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

I am a dinosaur, otherwise known as a terrible lizard.I do not know why I am so terrible.From a Caldecott Medal honoree comes the story of an endearing Tyrannosaurus rex who wonders why he can't be a vegetarianTyrannosaurus rex is a terrible dinosaur; of this, everyone is certain. But is this...
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Dinosaurumpus

Tony Mitton - Orchard Books
Format: Audio CD

Shake, shake, shudder, near the sludgy old swamp. The dinosaurs are coming. Get ready to romp. Join in with Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and friends as the dinosaurs stir up a Dinosaurumpus!Where can you find a Deinosuchus that practically pirouettes on its tail and a T-Rex that bounds gracefully...
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Inside-Outside Dinosaurs

Roxie Munro - Marshall Cavendish Children
Format: Print book

There is a giant dinosaur, a flying reptile, a dinosaur with plates and spike on its body, and even baby dinosaurs cracking out of their shells. There is a ferocious dinosaur that eats meat and vegetarian dinosaurs that hide from the carnivores. Look inside the dinosaurs and you'll see a dynamic...
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The Dinosaur Eggs

Francis Mosley - Barron's; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A lonely couple wishing for children hatches three dinosaur eggs and raises the resulting beasts to create an unusual but successful family.
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ABC T-Rex

Bernard Most - Harcourt Brace
Format: Print book

T-Rex loves the alphabet so much, he wants to eat it up. So he takes a bite or two, and he finds that C is chewy, D is delicious, and K tastes great with ketchup! Go out to eat with T-Rex, get a taste of this appetizing alphabet--and learn a little about food and a lot about fun! * Nearly...
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Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery

Kevin O'Malley - Walker Co.
Format: Book

The planet Jurassica is in an uproar. An unidentified flying object has crashed into the mysterious moon of Eon. This looks like a job for ...CAPTAIN RAPTOR!... hero of a thousand space missions; champion of truth, justice, and dinosaurs in space throughout the galaxy!If anyone can solve...
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Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates

Kevin O'Malley - Walker & Company
Format: Hardcover

Planet Jurassica is under siege. The sinister space pirates have raided the Imperial palace and stolen the famous Jewels of Jurassica. This looks like a job for . . . Captain Raptor!. . . hero of a thousand space missions; champion of truth, justice, and dinosaurs in space throughout the galaxy....
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Dazzle the Dinosaur

Marcus Pfister - North-South Books
Format: Paperback

The bestselling author of The Rainbow Fish and The Christmas Star returns with an all- new picture about Dazzle, a dinosaur with a beautiful glittering spine. When Dazzle and his friend, Maia the Maiasaurus, set out on an adventure, they meet a terrible Dragonsaurus! Will Dazzle's shining...
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Little Green Goose

Adele Sansone

Mr. Goose finds an abandoned egg, hatches it, and raises a peculiar green-skinned long-tailed chick, who worries about his identity but comes to recognize that he has a loving parent.
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Dinosaur vs. Bedtime

Bob Shea - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Hardcover

Roaaaar! Roaar! Nothing can stop me!Nothing can stop little dinosaur-not talking grownups, spaghetti, or even bath time. But what happens when he faces the biggest challenge of all?bedtime? With spare text and irresistible dinosaur roaaars, little dinosaurs will be begging for this book...
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Good Night, Dinosaurs

Judy Sierra - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Spirited, funny verse and comical pictures give readers a peek into a hitherto unknown aspect of dinosaur life: what went on at little dinosaurs bedtime.
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The Most Amazing Dinosaur

James Stevenson

Wilfred the Rat has found the perfect place to sleep forthe night--a big stone building with all the comforts: dinosaur bones, stuffed elephants, and a cafeteria full of tasty sandwiches and pies. "Welcome to the museum!" say unofficial residents Prichett, Leo, Harry, an
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Dinosaur Roar

Paul Stickland - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

Dinosaurs of every size, color, shape, and personality introduce small children to the concept of opposites, in a brightly illustrated, rhyming concept book. BOMC Main.
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The Super Hungry Dinosaur

Martin Waddell - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Here?s a book that begs to be read aloud. From the very first ?GRRRRRR!? and ?ROAR!? of the Super Hungry Dinosaur, kids will be rooting for Hal to save his parents and his dog, Billy, from the huge beast. And Hal saves them in the most unusual way (hint: It involves spaghetti) in this...
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Dino-Baseball (Dino-Sports)

Lisa Wheeler - Carolrhoda Books ®
Format: Library Binding

When the plant-eating Green Sox face the meat-eating Rib-Eye Reds, baseball will never be the same. Tied zip to zip, the game is a pitchers duel until the Green Soxs hothead manager goes snout to snout with the dodo umpire and gets tossed out. The Sox respond with their veggie-powered bats...
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Dino-Hockey

Lisa Wheeler - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Book

Summary:0About the Author:•0Author:Lisa WheelerIllustrator:Barry GottPublisher:Carolrhoda BooksPublished Date:10/01/2007ISBN:0822561913#of pages:#N/A
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Dino-Soccer

Lisa Wheeler - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Library Binding

When veggie-nibbling Grazers and meat-munching Biters take to the soccer field, its a showdown of prehistoric proportions. Herbivores and carnivores play a hilarious and closely fought soccer match (refd by a dodo bird, naturally) in front...
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Harry and the Dinosaurs Make a Christmas Wish

Ian Whybrow - Random House
Format: Hardcover

ON A VISIT to Mr. Oakley's farm, Harry and the Dinosaurs meet a bunch of little ducklings and decide that a pet duckling would be the perfect thing to ask for for Christmas. As the holidays approach, the excitement builds as to whether or not there will be a new pet on Christmas morning....
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Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct

Mo Willems - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Everyone in town loves Edwina, a fun-loving dinosaur who makes scrumptious chocolate cookies, helps old ladies, and plays with the children, with the exception of Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie who is determined to prove that dinosaurs are extinct! Teacher's Guide available.
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How do dinosaurs eat their food?

Jane Yolen - The Blue Sky Press; 1st edition
Format: Print book

How does a dinosaur eat all his food?Does he burp, does he belch, or make noises quite rude?Does he pick at his cereal, throw down his cup,hoping to make someone else pick it up? Just like kids, dinosaurs have a difficult time learning to behave at the table. However, with a little help...
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How do dinosaurs get well soon?

Jane Yolen - Blue Sky Press
Format: Book

The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague are back with another playful dinosaur tale--this time about a sick dinosaur child who catches the flu and must go to the doctor.What if a dinosaur catches the flu?Does he whimper and whine between each "At-choo"?Does he drop...
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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?

Jane Yolen - Blue Sky Press
Format: Hardcover

Substituting children for dinosaurs, Jane Yolen explores a world where dinosaurs are animated and with nightly routines. These anthropomorphized reptillians (a cast of 10) run the spectrum...
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How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?

Jane Yolen - The Blue Sky Press
Format: Hardcover

With more than 7 million copies sold, everybodys favorite bestselling dinosaurs are back to say I love you, in a VERY big way!Parents and children can never have enough ways to say I love you--and now, Americas favorite dinosaurs are giving families a funny book, perfect for bedtime, storytime,...
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Rex and Lilly Family Time: A Dino Easy Reader

Laurene Krasny Brown

Rex and Lilly, the dinosaur brother and sister, plan a birthday surprise for their mother, help clean the house with Robot Rob, and select a family pet.
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Pinky and Rex (Pinky & Rex)

James Howe - Simon Spotlight; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Pinky and Rex are the best of friends, but a trip to the museum with Pinky's dad and his sister, Amanda, puts their friendship to the test. When Pinky, whose favorite color is pink, and Rex, who loves anything to do with dinosaurs, set their sights on the very same stuffed animal at the museum...
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Pinky and Rex Get Married

James Howe - Atheneum
Format: Hardcover

Pinky is distraught when Rex doesn't come home to play because of a wedding. To be sure that they never get separated again, Pinky decides to get married, too. Full color.
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Dancing Dinos

Sally Lucas

How do you control a bunch of mischievous dinosaurs? A young boy finds out when the illustrations in his dinosaur picture book come to life.
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Nate the Great and the Sticky Case

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat - Yearling
Format: Paperback

A stegosaurus stamp belonging to Nate's friend Claude disappears, and the indomitable Nate the Great is called in on the case. At first, even Nate is stumped -- the stamp has just vanished without a trace! But with clues from the weather and his ever-faithful dog, Sludge, Nate is soon...
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The Dinosaurs Meet Dr. Clock

Martha Weston - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Clock invents a time machine, but his trip back to the era of the dinosaurs does not turn out as he had expected.
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Oh, Say Can You Say Di-no-saur?

Bonnie Worth - Random House
Format: Book

The Cat in the Hat makes another surprise appearance at Dick and Sally's house--only this time he makes his entrance riding atop a brachiosaurus! Soon, he's off, along with Dick and Sally, millions of years back in time to see how fossils were created. Then it's on to a tour through the Cat's...
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Little Champ

Jim Arnosky

With the help of their grandfather, Gina and Bobby set out to prove the existence of Champ, the legendary monster said to inhabit Lake Champlain. By the author of Otters Under Water.
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Ivy and Bean

Annie Barrows - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

World record fever grips the second grade, and soon Ivy and Bean are trying to set their own record by becoming the youngest people to have ever discovered a dinosaur. But how hard is it to find one?,
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The Mad Scientists' Club

Bertrand R. Brinley - Purple House Pr; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The boys are back after 40 years! Authors Edition with previously unpublished text restored from the original manuscripts. A strange sea monster appears on the lake ...a fortune is unearthed from an old cannon ...a valuable dinosaur egg is stolen. Watch out as the Mad Scientists turn...
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Boo's Dinosaur

Betsy Byars - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

An early chapter book from Newbery Medal winner Betsy Byars When Boo brings home a dinosaur that only she can see, her brother Sammy, doesn’t want to encourage her antics. Boo and her dinosaur are inseparable until Boo says good-bye to the dino quite suddenly. When Sammy sees...
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Dinoverse

Scott Ciencin - Random House
Format: Book

I was a teenage T. Rex!Survival of the fittest has always been the rule at Wetherford Junior High. So when Bertram Phillips's science fair project sends his mind back 67 million years, he's well prepared. After all, as the class brain, he's learned how to avoid predators.But...
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Dinotopia: Windchaser

Scott Ciencin - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

A storm at sea washes a young pickpocket, Hugh, and a surgeon's son, Raymond, overboard. Landing on the strange island world of Dinotopia, Raymond and Hugh learn the meaning of real courage and true friendship, with the help of a reclusive Skybax named Windchaser.
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Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time

James Gurney - Turner Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Shipwrecked in the strange, unknown world of Dinotopia, a scientist and his young son, Will, discover a land in which humans and an ancient race of dinosaurs have lived together for centuries, in a fantasy tale complemented by vivid, full-color illustrations. 100,000 first printing....
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Dinosaurs Before Dark

Mary Pope Osborne - Random House
Format: Paperback

Jack and Annie's very first fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series - the Magic Tree House!Where did the tree house come from?Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home....
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The talking T. Rex

Ron Roy - Random House
Format: Book

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the theft of a great deal of money from the belly of a nearly life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model that their friend, Jud Wheat, is using to raise money for a dinosaur museum.
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Raptor

Paul Zindel - Hyperion; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.
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Fossil Fever

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld - Golden Books
Format: Paperback

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...
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