Season One, in reading order
Every volume closes its own problem, so none of them ends on a cliff. But the village keeps a written count of everything it owns, and what one book spends the next one is short of — so the order is not a suggestion.
The whole season
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Every volume
Book One · Lars Vantén, 13, Rider
Three years after every grown-up vanished, a thirteen-year-old has to walk five tons of dinosaur home across a flooded road in the dark.
18 illustrations 22,582 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
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Book Two · Nell Okonjo, 14, Head Rigger
The Roost keeps twenty-two days of water a hundred and twenty feet up a tree, and loses all twenty-two in forty minutes.
18 illustrations 23,012 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
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$4.99
Book Three · Odji Faal, 15, Keeper of the Ledger
The village loses eleven days of food in one night, and the only thing that stops the rest rotting is nine miles up-valley.
18 illustrations 22,482 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
EPUB
$4.99
Book Four · Kit Ossory, 13, defector
A girl comes up the flooded causeway in the dark with an eighteen-foot raptor and a steel band bolted round its throat.
Text and cover 22,286 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
EPUB
$4.99
Book Five · Pia Marchetti, 9, runs the Small
Forty kids, four spoons left, and nine chicken-sized dinosaurs who have been sneaking out at night.
Text and cover 22,526 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
EPUB
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Book Six · Tarn Beaufort, 14, Green
The valley’s last grazing has gone gold, and two hundred dinosaurs have eleven miles to walk before the river closes the door.
Text and cover 22,909 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
EPUB
$4.99
Book Seven · Wren Adeyemi, 11, the Ear
For three years the radios have given one word at a time. Tonight they give up seventeen seconds, and a voice.
Text and cover 22,947 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
EPUB
$4.99
Book Eight · Mars Quintero, 12, Far-scout
Mars Quintero can send a message home. Nobody can send one back.
Text and cover 22,416 words a two-hour read
Paperback
$8.99
EPUB
$4.99
Book Nine · the whole village, anchored on Lars
She comes up the river and asks the Roost for one thing, out loud, in front of everybody — and says she will not come back and ask twice.
Text and cover 22,725 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
EPUB
$4.99
Book Ten · Lars and Odji, the finale
The last episode of Season One. The Roost climbs down to be judged, and then it walks up-valley into two miles of standing gold light.
Text and cover 21,338 words a two-hour read
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$8.99
EPUB
$4.99
In every one of them
Field Notes is one real animal, two things we actually know about it and how we know them, and then the page that says which parts of the book were made up. Make It is one build out of household junk, in numbered steps, under thirty minutes.
Questions people actually ask
Yes, and it is the only thing this shop is opinionated about. Every volume closes its own problem, so none of them ends on a cliff — but the village keeps a written count of everything it owns, and what one book spends the next one is short of. Book Six takes something away permanently. Starting at Book Seven works; it is just a smaller book than the one that is there.
Nine to twelve. The story is pitched at grades four to six and the sentences are pitched two years below that on purpose, which is what makes it work for a reader who has stalled. There is peril and there is no cruelty; the content note is on the schools page.
Orders leave in three to five working days. In the United States that is about two weeks door to door; every other destination has its own estimate on the shipping page, and the exact figure for your address comes back at checkout.
The ten paperbacks in one box, and the ten EPUBs free with them — so you can start Book One on the way home and the box can take its time. Shipping is on us in the United States.
Yes, and it has no DRM on it. You get an EPUB you can put on any device you own and keep, and all ten come free with the paperback set. Book One is ninety-nine cents on its own, so the price of finding out is nothing.
Yes. Class sets, invoicing, a W-9 and net-30 terms all live on the schools page, and a person answers that address.
No, and there is no date. When there is one it will be said plainly here and it will say who or what read it.
Printed when you order it. Three to five working days on the press, then it ships. The exact price, carrier and date come from the printer at checkout, quoted for your address — not guessed at here.
Illustrations, honestly. Books One, Two and Three carry eighteen interior illustrations each, one per chapter. Books Four to Ten are text and cover. When the remaining volumes are illustrated, everyone who bought a paperback of them will be told.
No audiobook. There is no audiobook and none is promised. A volume is described as a two-hour read, which is what it is.