01706cam a2200397 i 4500 623512950 TxAuBib 20061112120000.0 971204s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97047547 9780374348403 0374348405 (OCoLC)38107225 DLC eng rda DLC DLC TxAuBib rda Atkins, Jeannine, 1953- Mary Anning and the sea dragon / Jeannine Atkins ; pictures by Michael Dooling. First edition. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In 1872, curiosity incites a 12-year-old's English girl's interest in paleontology when she finds the entire skeleton of an ichthyosaur, an extinct sea reptile. Later, this adventurous girl went on to further her career in exploration of these extinct animals. Color illustrations throughout. AD650L Lexile. Decoding demand: 76 (high) Semantic demand: 90 (very high) Syntactic demand: 97 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.6 0.5 35822. 20061112. Anning, Mary 1799-1847 Juvenile literature. Anning, Mary 1799-1847 Childhood and youth. Paleontology England. Paleontologists. Fossils. Women Biography. Dooling, Michael, illustrator. TXKPL