Old Bones

Casey Templeton is searching a real dinosaur dig at the Royal Tyrrell Museum with his classmates. Casey finds a piece of dinosaur tooth, but because he goes hatless for hours he gets way too much sun. That night, just after he has seen and heard two men planning a robbery of precious artifacts from the Tyrrell, he falls unconscious with sunstroke.

He's taken to the home the museum's curator, Mr. Norman, to recover, and when he wakes tells what he has seen and heard. Mr Norman hires Casey to be a ticket-taker and watch out for the robbers. No luck until

On a bicycle jaunt north of Drumheller, Casey and his friend Mandy meet with a grim situation in which Casey has to use all his ingenuity and technical skills to try to thwart an incident planned for the Museum Gala that night.

Poet, painter, and writer of children's fiction, Gwen Molnar is the author of three poetry collections for children, I Said to Sam, Animal Rap and Far Out Fables, and Just Because: A Collection of Light Verse and Nonsense, as well as three Sebastian first chapter books, an early chapter book, No Presents Please, the first Casey Templeton Mystery, Hate Cell, and Hazel's Rainbow Ride, with Barbara Hartman as illustrator. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.