Kurtis Scaletta is een auteur van boeken voor jonge lezers. Zijn werk kenmerkt zich door boeiende verhalen die de aandacht van jonge lezers trekken. Hij verkent vakkundig thema's die relevant zijn voor zijn lezers, waardoor zijn verhalen zowel vermakelijk als tot nadenken stemmend zijn. Scaletta's toewijding aan het creëren van meeslepende verhalen voor jongeren blijkt uit zijn toegankelijke, maar toch betekenisvolle proza.
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"Lucas, small and unathletic, is obsessed with being powerful Trunkzilla in an online game, but after becoming a volunteer Senior Sitter and saving Isaac in real life, everything changes"--Provided by publisher.
A tiny bird discovers her inner dinosaur and learns to roar in this sweet story about remembering where you came from When little Dee is harassed by the neighborhood hawk, Mama tells her that her 20-million-times great-great-great-grandmother was an enormous dinosaur named Granny Rex and that Granny Rex still lives in Dee's feathers and bones. It's true: Not only did birds descend from dinosaurs, but they are related to the Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the mightiest dinosaurs of all! "Never forget," says Mama to her little bird, "that you are a dinosaur." Dee discovers she might be small, but she is mighty.