alberta

Provides brief descriptions of eight types of dinosaurs that lived in what is now northern North America, and speculates on what caused dinosaurs to become extinct.

Provides an account of fossil hunter Philip Currie's efforts to locate the fossil field of Albertosaurus bones found by Barnum Brown nearly ninety years earlier, and shares what Currie learned from his investigation of how and why the dinosaurs died.

In 1926, ten-year-old Kate, is convinced that the Quarter horse she receives for her birthday can win a contest at the annual fair and determines to participate even though the contest is open only to boys.

A young girl describes her home and family and the various features of their life in Alberta, Canada.