Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World
Author: Fern, Tracey
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
6.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1989
Points per Word
0.000251
Page Count
36
Points per Page
0.013889
Description
Colorful illustrations tell the story of Barnum Brown, named after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, the paleontologist who discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus rex as well as most of the other dinosaurs on display today.