On the Right Track. This item is unavailable.On the Right Track

Fenton Rumplemayer moves from New York City to Montana with his father, a paleontologist, and is able to help him identify a puzzling dinosaur track

Gr. 3-6. Eleven-year-old Fenton Rumplemayer is a dinosaur lover who is following in the tracks of his paleontologist parents. Fenton's chance to really get close to the action comes when his parents leave their jobs at the New York Museum of Natural History to work on special projects. The youngster is excited about his mother's one-year project in India and then is disappointed to find out that instead of experiencing the mystery and majesty of the East, he's being shipped out West to a nowhere place called Morgan, Wyoming, with his dad. Much of the story's focus deals with Fenton's missing his mother and his adjustment. The real mystery doesn't heat up until rather late in the book but still proves satisfying as Fenton fits the pieces of the dinosaur puzzle together. Fenton's new Wyoming pal, his computer hookup to his New York friend, and the mystery dinosaur tracks should keep boys and girls reading. Denia Hester