Jennifer's Reviews > Dinosaur Boy

Dinosaur Boy is a cute and unusual story about Sawyer, a kid who has dinosaur DNA and begins turning into a stegosaurus over summer vacation. When he returns to school, he has physical and emotional difficulties attending classes and interacting with some of his fellow students.

I really liked the anti-bullying message in this book. There is a strong theme of "different is okay." However, Sawyer doesn't deal with the bullies. Instead, the principal ships them off to "camp" to learn how to behave properly. But as Sawyer and his friends soon discover, there is no camp and there are some very strange things going on (yes, even stranger than a boy turning into a dinosaur).

My 8- and 10-year-old girls liked this book. I thought it was just okay. The writing was decent and the story was cute, but the plot twists were seriously farfetched and I thought that detracted from the story.