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Dinotopia: Complete Series

22 primary works • 22 total works
Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurs who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society.

The main series is comprised by James Gurney'…

Book 1

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
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4.28 · 13112 Ratings · 598 Reviews · published 1992 · 31 editions
In the year 1860, biologist and explorer Arthur De…

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    Book 2

    Lost City
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    3.91     · 746 Ratings · 23 Reviews · published 1992 · 5 editions
    Andrew, the son of a Dinotopian innkeeper, makes a…

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    Book 3

    Dinotopia: The World Beneath
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    4.29     · 4272 Ratings · 164 Reviews · published 1995 · 30 editions
    After they are shipwrecked on a mysterious island …

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    Book 4

    Windchaser
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    3.88     · 5708 Ratings · 73 Reviews · published 1995 · 9 editions
    A storm at sea washes a young pickpocket, Hugh, an…

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    Book 5

    River Quest
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    3.83     · 640 Ratings · 30 Reviews · published 1995 · 11 editions
    Waterfall City is in grave danger when the Polongo…

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    Book 6

    Hatchling
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    3.77     · 612 Ratings · 19 Reviews · published 1995 · 5 editions
    Janet, a young Hatchery apprentice, runs away when…

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    Book 7

    Dinotopia Lost
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    3.93     · 1352 Ratings · 44 Reviews · published 1996 · 20 editions
    For countless centuries, the Land Apart from Time …

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    Book 8

    Sabertooth Mountain
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    3.87     · 453 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 1996 · 6 editions
    High in the Forbidden Mountains of Dinotopia, sabe…

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    Book 9

    Thunder Falls
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    3.77     · 320 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1996 · 4 editions
    For Joseph and Fleetfeet, a young Stegosaurus, a j…

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    Book 10

    Firestorm
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    3.76     · 254 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions
    Over 550,000 copies sold since April 1995! Now mid…

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    Book 11

    The Maze
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    3.90     · 353 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1998 · 5 editions
    A master storyteller who has appeared seven times …

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    Book 12

    The Hand of Dinotopia
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    3.94     · 373 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 1999 · 12 editions
    A long-lost legend is found...Will is a skybax rid…

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    Book 13

    Dinotopia: First Flight
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    3.86     · 1044 Ratings · 64 Reviews · published 1999 · 7 editions
    In Dinotopia: First Flight, the third book in the …

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    Book 14

    Rescue Party
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    3.72     · 134 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1999 · 4 editions
    Every day, Loro enviously watches caravans of armo…

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    Book 15

    Sky Dance
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    3.81     · 166 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1999 · 3 editions
    Since he was small, Marc has wanted to be a tightr…

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    Book 16

    Chomper
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    3.85     · 163 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2000 · 4 editions
    Perry and his friend Stoutpoint come across an unu…

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    Book 17

    Return to Lost City
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    3.48     · 165 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2000 · 3 editions
    Young Andrew and Lian pay a return visit to their …

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    Book 18

    Survive!
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    3.64     · 94 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    After an earthquake sends him tumbling down a clif…

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    Book 19

    The Explorers
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    3.70     · 110 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    Long ago, a group of brave Troodon knights underto…

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    Book 20

    Dolphin Watch
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    3.79     · 105 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2002 · 6 editions
    A boy and his Cryptoclidus friend begin diving wit…

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    Book 21

    Oasis
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    3.85     · 99 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2002 · 8 editions
    Jack and Ty are opposites. So when they travel tog…

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    Book 22

    Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara
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    4.35     · 1535 Ratings · 103 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions
    Critics have gushed over Gurney's phantasmagorical…

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