Rex 2: Time Soldiers Book #2

Time Soldiers #2

by Kathleen Duey, Robert Gould

When a T. rex invades the present day through a time portal, the Time Soldiers kids struggle to keep the raging dinosaur from harming anyone.

Genres: Dinosaurs

Paperback

First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Kathleen Duey grew up in Colorado. She loved riding her horses, hiking, being in the mountains. Reading was always important to her. Writing became a fascination early in her life. In the fourth grade, Kathleen began writing stories and told everyone who would listen that she was going to be an author. Then she did nothing about it until she was 35 years old. Writing was her passion and her dream-come-true.

from: fantasticfiction.co.uk

Kathleen died of cardiac arrest at her home in Fallbrook, California. She was 69. She had struggled with dementia in her latter years which prevented her from completing her Skin Hunger trilogy.

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Reviews

[Rykki]

The boys thought this story was kind of cute. A dinosaur named Rex went showed up through a time portal with her egg. She causes all kinds of chaos before getting back to her egg and shuffle off through the portal again. The whole story is a kind of bland continuation of another story with near no facts or any other information that would make it a worthy educational read, but it was interesting for the kids to see what the dinosaur must be thinking in this new, confusing world.

[Pamela Powell]

This is a hard book to categorize...it's definitely fiction, but kind of a cross between a graphic novel and a chapter book. The illustrations are more like movie stills. Interesting story. I really think my elementary students will love these. The overarching storyline is 6 kids who get pulled into a time vortex and end up in other times trying to survive. In this one a T. Rex comes through the vortex to our time.

[Rich]

Terrible book. Poor prose and a story that doesn’t make sense. Only read this since my kid got it at the library. Even he said he didn’t like it since it didn’t make any sense.