Bones Rock!: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist

Bones Rock!: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist

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Revealing true stories about kids who have made paleo-discoveries and providing young readers with the tools necessary to make the next big discovery, this book shows kids how to collect, clean, and study fossil samples in order to develop and further their own research interests. Examples from the fossil record and the laboratory help to answer questions raised by bones a...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published April 1st 2004 by Invisible Cities Press Llc
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Michele Torrey
Most books for kids on the subject of paleontology serve up pretty much the same predictable soup full of dinosaur bones, fossils, and geological (yawn) history. Even the proposed activities can all start to sound the same, and, except for some cool illustrations every now and then, offer little in terms of anything new and exciting.

Not so for BONES ROCK! by Peter Larson and Kristin Donnan. From page one I was entranced by the easy-going narrative style of Peter Larson, a premiere paleontologis...more
Michelle
Most excellent book for any young person interested in becoming a paleontologist. It discussed the giftings and traits of persons inclined to Paleontology, what being a paleontologist is like, some paleontologic findings, and what someone someone must do to become an paleontologist.
Maria
Oct 16, 2012 Maria marked it as to-read
I've read this one before, but skimming it again for a student.
Wanda
Feb 25, 2013 Wanda marked it as to-read
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May 08, 2011 Cheryl/Aradanryl marked it as interesting-possibilities
Recommended to Cheryl/Aradanryl by: readkiddoread.com
Shannon
Jul 04, 2009 Shannon marked it as to-read
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