It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs may come in handy.
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call number/section: 1000, 1
subjects: african americans, juvenile fiction, race riots, dinosaurs, orphans, brothers and sisters, alternative histories (fiction), fiction, race relations, riots, siblings, new york (n.y.), race relations, juvenile fiction, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, 1861-1865, civil war, adventure fiction, historical fiction