Immersed in studying his favorite topic, dinosaurs, Oliver involves his fifth grade class in a campaign to make the stegosaurus the Colorado state fossil and runs afoul of an interfering bully.
The reader decides the course of action in an adventure in which a summer of biking, hiking, and exploring in Colorado culminates with the exciting and dangerous Ute Mountain Bike Race Series.
Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, using maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated material to highlight the land, history, and people of each individual state.
Discusses the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado, and what is known about the history, social life, and customs of the Ancestral Puebloans who lived in them.
Colorado rancher Atticus Cody travels to Mexico to recover the body of his son Scott, believing the young man had committed suicide, but when he arrives he begins to suspect Scott was murdered and he is driven by grief, anger, and love to try and understand his son's death.
When Kat, her father, and brother visit an old gold mine that has been turned into an amusement park, she falls down a shaft and meets an ancient dragon, the last of his kind, and inadvertently triggers a twenty-first century gold rush.
An illustrated introduction to Colorado that covers the geography, climate, weather, plants, animals, history, people, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, and entertainment of the state.
