"An unforgettable historical, high-octane adventure." -- Dav Pilkey,
author-illustrator of the Dog Man series
It's 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War
rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her
friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the
Draft Riots break out, and a number of their fellow orphans are
kidnapped by an evil magistrate, Richard Riker.Magdalys and her friends
flee to Brooklyn and settle in the Dactyl Hill neighborhood, where black
and brown New Yorkers have set up an independent community -- a safe
haven from the threats of Manhattan. Together with the Vigilance
Committee, they train to fly on dactylback, discover new friends and
amazing dinosaurs, and plot to take down Riker. Can Magdalys and the
squad rescue the rest of their friends before it's too late?