🎉 1/2 off all E-Books for Registering an account today! USE PROMO: 50%offregister
Sale!
Dinosaur Boy
Original price was: $7.99.$5.99Current price is: $5.99.
**A laugh-out-loud, quirky new middle grade series that looks at bullying in an entirely new and inventive way.** Everyone knows the dinosaur gene skips a generation. So it isn’t a complete surprise when Sawyer sprouts spikes and a tail before the start of fifth grade. After all, his grandfather was part stegosaurus. Being a dinosaur is pretty cool, despite a sudden craving for vegetables. Except some of the kids at school aren’t too thrilled with his spikey tail―even if he covers them with tennis balls. Sawyer is relieved when a couple of the bullies mysteriously stop coming to school, until he discovers a secret more shocking than Dino DNA! The disappearing kids are in for a galactically horrible fate…and only Sawyer, with the help of his friends Elliot and Sylvia, can rescue them. Dinosaur Boy **is the perfect…** * book for middle school boys and reluctant readers * bully book for children that explores the topic in a new and inventive way * dinosaur chapter book for kids 9-12 * preteen gift for boys A hilarious adventure and as sharp as a stegosaurus’s tail…fantastic.―Nathan Bransford, author of *Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow* on *Dinosaur Boy* Funny, fast-paced, and filled with surprising twists, *Dinosaur Boy* is a charming story… will have boys and girls roaring for more!―Nikki Loftin, author of *The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy* and *Nightingale’s Nest* A Junior Library Guild selection And don’t miss the thrilling sequel *Dinosaur Boy Saves Mars* ―coming February 2016.
| About Author | Cory Putman Oakes was born in Basel, Switzerland, but grew up in Novato, California and attended Marin Catholic High School. She then spent three fantastic years at the University of California at Los |
|---|---|
| Author | Cory Putman Oakes |
| Book Series | Dinosaur Boy |
| Format | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781492634478 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 155 |
| Publication Date | 02-02-2015 |
| Publisher | Sourcebooks |
1 review for Dinosaur Boy
Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.
Related products
-
Sale!
The Blind Assassin
Original price was: $13.99.$10.49Current price is: $10.49. -
Brawn
$4.99 -
Aenir
$4.99 -
Blood of Amber
$4.99
Autumn2 (verified owner) –
We received this book via NetGalley to give an honest review.
I started reading this to K before bedtime and we could only read one chapter a night as the chapters were a bit long for us. K listened up to about chapter 16 and then he was losing interest so I ended up finishing the book myself. I think for K the long chapters were just a bit too much for him and I am not sure if he is fully ready for the chapter books like I hoped.
But anywho onto the review.
Dinosaur Boy is about a young boy named Sawyer who is human one minute and the next he has become a dinosaur. But he is not a carnivorous dinosaur he is a herbivore eating dinosaur. Now just because Sawyer has been turned into a dinosaur because of his DNA that has been passed to his generation he is the same person he has always been.
Now that he is considered different there are people in his school that like to pick on him and have become bullies. It is totally uncalled for as Sawyer stays to himself but that doesn’t help matters. They throw things at him, laugh at him, use his plates as a ring toss.
As time goes on in school Sawyer and his best friend Elliot meet a new girl who is out of this world. And together they all learn that something suspicious is going on in their school to those that bully people.
Sawyer and his friends have to make a decision to either help the guys and girls who bully people out or let them be to their fate.
Now at the beginning there seemed to be a huge amount of information on the dinosaur gene and how it became to be which at times it did feel overwhelming.
Overall the story was good and I am glad that I gave it a chance to read. I liked the twist on the end and it had me remember that middle school books are always so much fun to read. This book I believe is better for the older kids to read maybe third grade on up.
Maybe when K reaches a certain age he will be willing to give this book a try.