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The Colossal Fossil Fiasco: Lucy's Lab #3
By (Author) Michelle Houts
Illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel
3
Skyhorse Publishing
Sky Pony Press
27th February 2018
United States
Children
Fiction
Educational: First / native language: Readers and reading schemes
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
813.6
Hardback
112
Width 140mm, Height 210mm
Lucy accidentally overhears her parents talking about the family getting a second pet. But what pet should they get
At school, Lucy's class is learning about fossils and the plants and animals that left them behind.
One afternoon, Lucy finds a special rock, and Miss Flippo gets very excited! But when Lucy's precious fossil goes missing, everyone in Room 2C is a suspect. . . .
Michelle Houts is the award-winning author of several middle-grade novels, picture books, and biographies for young readers including Winterfrost, which was a 2014 Bank Street Best Book and Junior Library Guild selection, and The Beef Princess of Practical County, which was awarded the 2010 IRA Childrens Book Award. She lives, works, and plays on a farm in western Ohio, where she is restoring a one-room schoolhouse. While in second grade, she begged her parents for a chemistry kit, but wasnt quite sure what to do when she actually got it. Lucys Lab allows her to be the scientist she always wanted to be.
Elizabeth Zechel is an illustrator and author of the childrens book Is There a Mouse in the Babys Room. Her illustrations appear in books such as Wordbirds by Liesl Schillinger , The Little General and the Giant Snowflake by Matthea Harvey, and cookbooks such as Bubbys Homemade Pies by Jen Bervin and Ron Silver, as well as a variety of magazine and literary journals. She lives in Brooklyn, NY where she teaches Kindergarten.