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For Joseph and Fleetfeet, a young Stegosaurus, a journey across the dangerous terrain of Dinotopia to retrieve a stolen prize for their guardian is hampered by their constant competitiveness. But the two friends must put aside their differences to shoot the treacherous rapids of Waterfall City's Thunder Falls.  

140 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

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Scott Ciencin

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Scott Ciencin was a New York Times best-selling novelist of 90+ books. He wrote adult and children's fiction and worked in a variety of mediums including comic books. He created programs for Scholastic Books, designed trading cards, consulted on video games, directed and produced audio programs & TV commercials, and wrote in the medical field about neurosurgery and neurology. He first worked in TV production as a writer, producer and director. He lived in Sarasota, Florida with his wife (and sometimes co-author) Denise.

(Also wrote under the pseudonyms Nick Baron and L.J. Oliver)

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541 reviews
March 21, 2018
Loved these as a child. Beautifully imagined world, swashbuckling adventure. Multiple authors for refreshing different writing styles. Scott Ciencin was one of my favorite of the multiple authors.
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March 16, 2023
Entertaining, a little sad that the quest was manufactured though.
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January 15, 2019
Nice simple adventure and the ending message was pretty nice. The characters of Joseph and Fleetfeet were enjoyable even if their competitive nature did get a bit annoying in a few parts and the middle did feel pointless.
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November 12, 2012
A wonderful, fantastic series. The authors do a good job to keep their writing and voice congruous throughout the various books.
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2,969 reviews
August 3, 2013
One of the first in the Dinotopia series. A good story about cooperation and friendship.
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February 9, 2010
A coming of age story for a boy and a dinosaur. Reasonable, but not really one of the better Dinotopia books.
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December 16, 2013
I read through this series of books on dinotopia as an interest in a lesson plan extension for higher elementary school grades, this was expanding the thematic unit i created for kindergarten...
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July 4, 2014
The book surprised me a lot. Joseph is my favorite character because he always is thinking of different paths to go than Fleetfeet does.







I LOVED THE BOOOOOK!!!
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