The deadlands: hunted - skye melki-wegner

Wings of Fire meets Jurassic Park in this action-adventure middle grade debut series by Skye Melki-Wegner about five outcasts -- and former enemies -- who are the only hope to save their warring kingdoms from impending doom.

My favorite middle grade book of the year.

-- New York Times -bestselling author Amie Kaufman Battle rages between the dinosaur kingdoms of Cretacea.

When the Fallen Star struck, it brought death and despair, ash and toxic rain.

But some dinosaurs survived .

and were changed.

Their minds grew alert.

They learned to speak.

To dream.

To wage war.

As the two remaining dinosaur kingdoms fight for territory, Eleri, the disgraced son of a prince, is exiled from his home for saving an enemy soldier.

Banished to the merciless Deadlands, a terrifying desert full of tar pits, poisonous gas, and ruthless carnivores, he must join forces with a group of questionable allies--including the enemy soldier he saved--to avoid becoming prey.

When Eleri and his fellow exiles discover the horrific truth behind the war, the unlikely heroes must do all they can to save their kingdoms from a lurking predator.

and a secret plot that might destroy them all.