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Gr 9 Up—Rachel and Samuel both lost their mothers at a young age and have fathers obsessed with dinosaur fossils, but the similarities in their upbringing end there. Rachel grew up in relative luxury owing in part to her father's prestigious position at Yale. Samuel and his father, a self-taught paleontologist without official credentials, can barely make ends meet. However, they all end up on the same train headed out west in a race to be the first to find the fossil of a T. rex—a discovery that will launch one of the men into the national spotlight. In addition to outwitting each other, the rival c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"For as long as I could remember, I'd been looking for things...a warbler egg or the knuckle of an ox or the larva of a monarch butterfly. The thrill of the hunt, something lost now found." Now it's a rex, the king of dinosaurs, that "handsome young man" Samuel Bolt is searching for. When a section boss on the Union Pacific sends Samuel's self-taught paleontologist father a giant fossil tooth, the two set off for the Badlands, hoping to beat out fossil-hunting competitor Professor Cartland of Yale University. Inspired by the actual late-nineteenth-centur...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In the late-nineteenth-century Badlands, Samuel and his self-taught paleontologist father hope to beat out dinosaur-fossil-hunting competitor Professor Ca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More