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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
To some, Henry Whiteoak is an outlaw. Some see him as a simple salesman out to ply his trade from the back of a garishly painted wagon. In the Badlands of the Dakota Territories, Henry Whiteoak crosses paths with a string of bounty hunters out to claim the growing price that had been put on his head. Unfortunately, the men he's wronged throughout his colorful past don't intend on letting Whiteoak live long enough to spend the money he stole. At least...
8) Badlands
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young explorer's introduction to South Dakota's Badlands National Park, covering its rocky landscape, plants, animals such as prairie dogs, and activities such as fossil hunting.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The setting is the often starkly beautiful Badlands of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; most of the key players are young Lakota Native Americans who attend Little Wound High School. Johnny and his preteen sister, Jashaun, spend time on horseback when they're not selling illegal liquor or tattoo-designed apparel. Director Chloe Zhao captures the subtleties of a marginalized existence in which the historic culture of a people can't compete...
12) The badmen
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Hal Peterson thought he had come up with the perfect scheme when he found out his sister, Annie, was married to a banker in Deadwood. He and his two thugs would force Ben Matters to let them into the bank at night. The only hitch was they would have to kill the banker and force Annie to go with them until they were far enough away for her to be released. The plan was working. However, Hap had not counted on the tireless persistence of Able Guthrie,...
Author
Series
Time spies volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Alex, Mattie, and Sophie visit the past again, this time traveling to 1898, where they help paleontologist Walter Granger to protect his fossil find.
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa make their way to Mount Rushmore to check out the colossal carving of four presidents...and find a mountain's worth of mystery, history, precocious prairie dogs, quirky clues, befuddling Badlands, and one Crazy Horse!
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"America's Wild Frontier tells the story of the frontier and wildlife closest to America's heart. We explore the woods that Davy Crocket once called home in The Great Valley of Appalachia, and where Wild Bill Hickok saw his last sunset in The Badlands of South Dakota. We reveal a cast of critter characters that includes everything from bears, bison and burrowing owls, to weasels, wood ducks and wild horses. Whether it's beneath the ice sheets in the...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Paleontologist Luis Chiappe was searching under the hot sun in Patagonia for fossils of ancient birds when he and his team stumbled upon something even more incredible-eggshells. They found the old nesting site of something far bigger than birds. Follow along on the graphic adventure based on a true story to discover eggs from the titanosaur, the biggest dinosaur ever discovered. Then, take a trip back in time to learn all about the creatures who...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Paleontologist Philip Currie was on a difficult dig, following incomplete clues to find fossils. But Philip knew he needed to discover these bones in the badlands if he was going to convince the scientific community about his theory on the life of carnivorous dinosaurs. Follow along on this graphic adventure based on a true story to discover Albertosaurus fossils and uncover the mystery they tell. Then, take a trip back in time to learn all about...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Paleontologist Susan Hendrickson was excited when she found a few Tyrannosaurus Rex bones in South Dakota's Badlands. But after she and her team dug deeper, Susan realized she had discovered the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever found! The team named it Sue. Follow along on this graphic adventure based on a true story to discover the fossils from this giant dinosaur. Then, take a trip back in time to learn all about the creatures that...
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Over 12 Hours Of Our Nation's Greatest Treasures! In 1872 President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law our nation s first National Park, Yellowstone. The purpose was to preserve the breathtaking scenery and the wildlife within the historic landscape. Since then, other significant pieces of land and sea have been designated as National Parks, in hopes to conserve the past and present glory of each unique ecosystem. Now you can journey through the ecology,...