Young
Adult Fiction — Review
 Feather
Brain
by Maureen Bush
Orca Book Publishers, 2008
ISBN 978-1-55143-877-1
$7.95 (paperback) 144 pp, ages 8 – 12
www.orcabook.com
Author Maureen Bush grabs the reader from the first page and
pulls us quickly into a lively adventure. Dinosaur crazy Lucas
has ordered two dinosaur items with his birthday money—a book entitled
Make-a-Saurus: My Life with Raptors and Other Dinosaurs by Brian
Cooley (which, interestingly enough, is a real book with lots of
great ideas on how to make dinosaur models) and a dinosaur-making
kit from www.howweirdcanyouget.com. The instructions included with
the dinosaur-making kit end with these words: “But be warned: what
you create is yours for life unless it is stolen from you.” The
results of Lucus’ model building sessions are unusual to say the
least. A great adventure story, this book deals with the issue
of bullies and problem solving realistically.
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