Dinosaur Boy

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 readersbully book for children that explores the topic in a new and inventive waydinosaur chapter book for kids 9-12preteen 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 NestA Junior Library Guild selectionAnd don't miss the thrilling sequel Dinosaur Boy Saves Mars-coming February 2016.