Warning: There's a pterodactyl in this book. No, really. Okay, it started out as an egg. But then it hatched. And out came a pterodactyl! Which was actually quite cool in the beginning. But then it got bigger. And bigger. And BIGGER. And of course Mom found out about it. But that wasn't even the worst part. The worst part was, a group of scientists led by the evil genius Dr POX came looking for it. And the very worst part was that the pterodactyl was not even toilet-trained. Boy, are Sam and Priya in trouble now!

Prepare to be blown away—or rather, carried away on huge muscular wings—by this blissfully outlandish, bracingly-smart, tour de force about a teen who has to come to terms with relinquishing control for the first time as she falls for the hot new...pterodactyl...at school. After all, everybody wants him!Sheils is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she's at it). She's smart, powerful, the Student Body Chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for? But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. There's something about him—something primal—that causes the students to lose control whenever he's around. Even Sheils, the seemingly perfect self-confident girl that she is, can't keep her mind off of him, despite her doting boyfriend and despite the fact that Pyke immediately starts dating Jocelyn, the school's...