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Time Travel

Dinosaurs Before Dark

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  • 1992 first published
  • 80 pages
  • ★ 4.6 (16 ratings)
  • 58 editions
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Published in 1992, Dinosaurs Before Dark is a time-travel fiction novella by Mary Pope Osborne. It is set in Urzeit. Readers will find themes of magic, dinosaurs, tree houses and time travel.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.6 out of 5 from 16 ratings, and 196 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 58 editions across 7 languages.

It runs to roughly 80 pages — about an hour and a half of reading at an average pace.

About Dinosaurs Before Dark

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Era

  • Urzeit

Subjects

  • Magic
  • Dinosaurs
  • Tree houses
  • Time travel
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Dinosaurios
  • Magia
  • Casas en árboles
  • Ficción juvenil
  • Viajes a través del tiempo
  • Children's fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Adventure and adventurers
  • Literature and fiction, juvenile
  • Kinderbuch
  • Abenteuer

Quick answers

Who wrote Dinosaurs Before Dark?

Dinosaurs Before Dark was written by Mary Pope Osborne and first published in 1992.

What genre is Dinosaurs Before Dark?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel.

How long is Dinosaurs Before Dark?

The median edition has 80 pages, about about an hour and a half of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Dinosaurs Before Dark?

Readers who like it often enjoy Midnight for Charlie Bone, A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3) and Test of the Twins.

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