Dimensions
144 x 177 x 12mm
Two tales interweave through this novel, set in the dinosaur triangle of western Queensland. We follow the fate of a small ornithopod trying to survive as a plant-eater in a land of carnivores through its fight for life to its ultimate death in the claws of a terrifying flesh eater.
Twelve-year-old Ellie Honeywell regards herself as an amateur palaeontologist. She thinks she's more familiar with ancient fossils than teenage boys. When Tom Hart invites her to a fossil dig near Winton, she thinks her fossil-finding fantasies have come true. But why did Tom have to invite Peta along as well? She's 14, gorgeous, sophisticated and totally unbearable.
The three men illegally mining for valuable opal fossils are not about to let some camping kids jeopardise their plans to get out of the Conservation Park undetected. But if the two girls are to outwit and survive these ruthless criminals they need to become allies. In a dramatic conclusion Ellie's discovery of the fossilised femur of the small ornithopod neatly ties the two narratives together, producing a satisfying conclusion to this adventure-packed novel.
