The Summer Studies and Work Experience program that allows Sam and Paige to work at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology does not exist, (I wish it did!), but the museum does. In fact, the Royal Tyrrell in Drumheller, Alberta, is a museum like no other. It is filled with the most exciting exhibits and fossils any dinosaur enthusiast could dream of. The dioramas and full-scale skeletons will take you back to the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Programs offered include science talks, fossil walks and a camp-in sleepover in the Hall of the Dinosaurs! As the Camp-In information says: Snore with the dinosaurs, dig for fossils, or create a fossil replica. And then, see what happens when the lights go out at the Museum!
Overnight Camp-out in the Dinosaur Hall
About the Author
Jacqueline Guest is the author of twenty novels for young readers, many of them award winners, including three previous Coteau Books titles – The Outcasts of River Falls, The Comic Book War and Ghost Messages.
Nine of Jacqueline’s books have been honoured with Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Awards, and in 2012 she won two American Indian Youth Literature Awards. Ghost Messages is a Moonbeam Gold Medal winner and a nominee for both the R. Ross Annett Award and the 2012 Silver Birch® Award in the OLA Forest of Reading® program. Belle of Batoche was an Ontario Library Association Best Bet Selection and won the Edmonton Schools Best of the Best Award. Jacqueline’s books have also received nominations for the Red Cedar, R. Ross Annett, Hackmatack, Golden Eagle, and Arthur Ellis Mystery Awards.
Jacqueline’s works are well-known for having main characters who come from different ethnic backgrounds including First Nations, Inuit or Metis. In 2013, she was awarded the Indspire Award in recognition of her outstanding career achievement and in 2017 Jacqueline was awarded the Order of Canada.
Alberta born and raised, Jacqueline Guest lives and writes in a cabin in the pine woods of the Rocky Mountain foothills. Visit her at www.jacquelineguest.com.
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