Larger	The Great Whale of Kansas Author: Richard W. Jennings
	Book Information Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Book Type: Hardcover Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780618102280 - ISBN-10: 0618102280 Publication Date: 9/24/2001 Pages: 160 Reading Level: Ages 9-12

As a young boy begins to dig a hole in his back yard, his shovel suddenly strikes something hard, and big, as it turns out, in more ways than one. What he discovers, preserved in the Cretaceous limestone is more spectacular than anything the town of Melville, Kansas, has ever seen before—something that should perhaps be left to the experts, or should it? As the determined eleven-year-old continues to dig, outlines of an ancient creature emerge, but what is it? And more importantly to some, whose is it?