When she's 80 years old, Julia Summerwaithe decides to visit her grandchildren, Ellie and Stevie, in New York City, for the first time. She has something important to show them; in the Natural History Museum is the dinosaur she and her brother discovered on their farm in Nebraska when they were young. But even more important to Julia than seeing the dinosaur is sharing her memories of the discovery and excavation with her grandchildren. Through their grandmother's description of her rugged prairie childhood, her brother's untimely death, and the discovery of the dinosaur fossil, Ellie and Steve relive their grandmother's childhood adventures. Readers will be drawn into Julia's story, just as her grandchildren are, until her memories become more involving than modern-day surroundings.

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This is such an excellent story. Couldn't stop listening to it.

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3 audiocassettes. Narrated by Barbara Caruso. Good story.
Julia Cerat Summerwaite is eighy years old and far from her Nebraska prairie home. But when she goes with her two grandchildren to the Natural History Museum, she once again becomes the young tomboy who helped her brother Daniel on his quest to find a dinasaur in the vast grasslands surrounding their sod home. Wantering through the museum, Julia brings Daniel to life as she tells her grandchildren of his irrepressible dinasaur fever and shares with them her fierce dedication to her brother. The old soman's poignant narrative os told through a magical blend of past and present that highlights the grandchildren's growing fascination wtih her adventure. As they hear her vitality and wisdom, she draws them step by step toward Daniel's dream.

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