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The Dragon in the Cliff: A Novel Based on the Life of Mary Anning
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4.1 out of 5
Based on 17 Ratings and 8 Reviews

Book Description
"I scraped off the clay...there was no mistaking what I saw...I had found it!"

What Mary Anning found in the cliffs in 1811, when she was 13, was the first complete fossil of an ichthyosaur, a marine dinosaur. Mary Anning lived in England in the 1800's. She hunted and sold fossils to save her family from poverty after her father died when she was 11 years old. Despite social disapproval of her ... More

Book Information
PublisherBackinprint.com
BindingPaperback (10 editions)
Reading LevelYoung Adults
# of Pages228
ISBN-100595350747
ISBN-13978-0595350742
Publication Date05/14/2005
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About Sheila Cole (Author) : Sheila Cole is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Sheila Cole include To Be Young in America: Growing up with the Country, 1776-1940, The Dr... more
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