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Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong!
by Dr. Nick Crumpton (Author) and Gavin Scott (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Each time you turn the page in this 64-page book for middle grade readers, you’ll see a dinosaur “fact” that has been proved wrong with more research.

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ALL DINOSAURS BECAME FOSSILS
WRONG!

Everything we know about dinosaurs comes from fossils, so we depend a lot on finding them. But there’s a problem . . . a bone becoming a fossil hardly EVER happens. It is an incredibly rare event and the chances of one single bone being fossilized is about one in a billion!

Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

Looking Up
by Stephan Pastis (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Living alone with her mother in a poorer part of town, Saint–a girl drawn to medieval knights, lost causes, and the protection of birthday piñatas–sees the neighborhood she has always known and loved disappearing around her: old homes being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops. But when her favorite creaky old toy store is demolished, she knows she must act.

Enlisting the help of Daniel “Chance” McGibbons, a quiet, round-faced boy who lives across the street (and whose house also faces the wrecking ball), Saint hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown.

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