Tracey Fern
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Howard Carter was obsessed with mummies. He met his first when he was a boy in England and lived near a mansion filled with Egyptian artifacts. Howard dreamed of discovering a mummy himself-especially a royal mummy in its tomb, complete with all its treasures. When he was seventeen, he took a job with the Egypt Exploration Fund and was sent to Egypt to learn about archaeology and excavation sites. And his mummy hunt was on! Howard discovered many...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Barnum Brown's parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did. As a paleontologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most of the other dinosaurs on display there today. Full color.