The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur
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Chapter Book · Ages 7–9 · 2007 · Est. 2 hour read

The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur

By Elizabeth Singer Hunt

Book #1 in the Secret Agent Jack Stalwart series

A dinosaur hybrid terrorizes the city. Can Jack stop it before chaos reigns?

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110 pages· 10,369 words· Est. 2 hour read
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Jack races to New York to solve the mystery of a missing dinosaur toe. His investigation leads to a young scientist whose experiment has unleashed a monstrous dinosaur-dog hybrid. As the creature wreaks havoc, threatening the Central Park Zoo, Jack must act swiftly to prevent disaster. Can he outsmart the beast and save the city from chaos?

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In The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur, Jack zooms to the city that never sleeps to try to solve the mystery of the missing Allosaurus toe. Starting at the Natural History Museum, Jack’s detection takes him to a competitive grade-schooler determined to win the science fair with his experiment crossing his own dog with the DNA from the bone of a dangerous, carnivorous dinosaur. Soon the gargantuan creature is terrorizing New Yorkers and Jack must stop him before he devours the animals in the Central Park zoo!

At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
110
Words
10,369
Reading age
7–9
Audience
Juvenile Reader
Lexile
760L
Themes & topics
Books about AmericaBooks about dinosaursBooks about New YorkBooks about spiesBooks about adventure and adventurers
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.2
F&P level
~R
AR points
2
AR interest level
LG
AR quiz
122136
Publication
Published
September 4, 2007
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781602860049

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