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Pennypacker, Sara.
THE MOUNT RUSHMORE CALAMITY
New York : Harper, 2009
IL K-3, RL 3.5
ISBN 0061429910
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 Flattened by a bulletin during the night not long ago, Stanley Lambchop and his younger brother Arthur and their mom and dad get ready for a family vacation.  They’re heading  to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore.  The two brothers have one Wild West adventure after another as they meet Calamity Jasper, the park ranger’s daughter.  They join her in a search for gold in an abandoned mine when a cave-in traps Calamity Jasper.  Will Stanley be able to put his flatness to good use and save her?  Do they find any gold?  Read this book to go on a trip out West with Flat Stanley and his family to find out.    (Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2011-2012)
SUBJECTS:     Lambchop, Stanley (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
                        Gold mines and mining -- Fiction.
                        Vacations -- Fiction.
                        Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.) -- Fiction.
                        South Dakota -- Fiction.
                        Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.

 
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