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
subjects: african americans, fiction, race relations, riots, dinosaurs, orphans, siblings, new york (n.y.), race relations, fiction, history, alternative histories (fiction), action and adventure fiction