DOMINIC BEAN AND THE MAMMOTH MELT

An imaginative adventure perfect for curious kids Tui T Sutherland author of 1 New York Times best selling series Wings of FireAt first twelve year old Dominic Bean is not happy when he and his sister are dumped with eccentric relatives on a New Hampshire cattle farm while their scientist parents work on a secret project in the Canadian Arctic Coping with what he sees as parental abandonment plus the pressure of bullies schoolwork and wrangling Harriet a stubborn pregnant Highlander cow with long sharp horns bring out the worst in Dom But the sleepy farm turns out to be full of surprises A developer is trying to buy the Bean family land to build an Arctic themed amusement park under a plastic dome Dom s nemesis at school Edith turns out to have a way with Harriet And reading his dad s old journal leads Dom to an ancient woolly mammoth tusk that his father once found in the farm s bog Dom learns that his jam making aunt and whiskey distilling uncle are in fact in cahoots with his parents on a secret project in the old milking barn a project that if successful will de extinct the woolly mammoth and possibly help save the planet Key Text FeaturesAuthor s notebiographical informationepigraphillustrationsjournal entriesmapscientific nomenclat