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Valley of the Bones is a multi-layered adventure for both boys and girls set on a massive Central Queensland beef property owned by the parents of Lachlan Reed. Tara, a feisty city girl, goes to stay at the property. There, she and Lachlan discover the fossilised bones of a pterodactyl on the property of a neighbour who has sold out to a giant coal mining concern. When they notify the local museum, the real trouble starts...
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Queensland author Gary Crew has an outstanding reputation as a writer of young adult fiction and innovative picture books. His numerous prizes and awards include CBC Book of the Year: Older Readers for Strange Objects and Angel's Gate (1991 and 1994); CBC Picture Book of the Year shortlisting for Lucy's Bay (1993); CBC Picture Book of the Year for First Light (1994) and CBC Picture Book of the Year for The Watertower (1995). Gary was editor of the After Dark series and author of the picture books First Light, The Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie, Bright Star, The Viewer, Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry Book, Troy Thompson's Radical Prose Folio, Memorial and Leo the Lion Tamer. His previous Lothian YA Fiction titles are Mama's Babies and Dear Venny, Dear Saffron. ILLUSTRATORBIO: Melbourne artist Mark Wilson has illustrated a number of educational and trade children's books, including the picture book Penguin Shore by Tim O'Brien. His previous Lothian Books are The Wombat King and The Lie in the After Dark series.
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- PublisherLothian
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0734400144
- ISBN 13 9780734400147
- BindingHardcover
- IllustratorWilson Mark
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Mark Wilson. (illustrator). 47 pp, 11 1/4" H - glazed pictorial boards. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. Juvenile fiction. "Q: What do you do when you discover the fossil of a pterodactly that's over a hundred million years old? A: Contact a palaeontologist. Q: But what do you do when the site where you found the fossil is about to be strip-mined for coal? A: Fight long and hard to save the heritage of the past. 'Valley of Bones' is the story of such a fight, from Tara and Lachlan's discovery of the fossil (in the Australian outback) to the final bizarre and unforeseen outcome." Small bump to bottom corner of front board. Seller Inventory # 21387
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