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Boy, with accidental dinosaur

Call Number

  • SCIENCE FICTION MCDO (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : A Tordotcom Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group, 2026.

Physical Description

116 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"How to Train Your Dragon meets Mad Max in this story of an orphan in a fractured Southwest who just wants to ride a dinosaur under the lights. Come one, come all to the dinosaur rodeo! Tif Tamim wants nothing more than to be a dinosaur buckaroo. An orphan in search of a place to rest his head and a job to weigh down his pockets, Tif has bounced from circus to circus, yearning for a chance to ride a prehistoric beauty under the sparkling lights of a big-top. To become a buckaroo, Tif needs to learn the tools of the trade, yet few dino maestros want to take a scrawny nobody from nowhere under their wing. But when Tif frees a dino from an abusive owner and braves the roving gangs of the formerly-American west to bring the dino to safety, he catches someone's eye. And boy, how those eyes dazzle Tif from the back of a bucking carnotaur"-- Provided by publisher.