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* Contents derived from the
North Sydney,
North Sydney - Lane Cove area,
Sydney Northern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Random House Australia
, 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Dino Champions,
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Robert is taking part in an athletics carnival. After an exhausting training session, he starts thinking about the biggest, fastest and strongest creatures in the dinosaur kingdom. With his best friend Riley, the two friends travel back in time to check out the gold medal champions of prehistoric times. ' (Publication summary)
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Call of the Wild,
single work
children's fiction
children's
adventure
Robert is out camping in the outback with his family and Riley. The boys can hear dingoes howling to one another, and they imagine what it might have been like to hear muttaburrasaurus calling to one another. The fossil takes him back to the mid-Cretaceous in the dead of night, where they experience firsthand the unusual call of the wild.' (Publication summary)
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Dinosaur Cove,
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Robert and Riley are visiting Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, the site where paleontologists discovered Leaellynasaura amicagraphica, a dinosaur that called into question whether dinosaurs were cold or warm blooded. When Robert and Riley get transported back in time, they realise that Victoria really was close to Antarctica in prehistoric times - it's freezing!' (Publisher's blurb)
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Eruption!,
single work
children's fiction
children's
'While bushwalking in New Zealand, Mount Ruapehu, a volcano lets off some steam. In the country of the tuatara, it gets Robert thinking, how and why did the dinosaurs die out? He gets a chance to find out as he is transported back to the Late Cretaceous, where climate change is taking its toll on the remaining dinosaurs.' (Publisher's blurb)
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