Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend

Gr 10 Up—Shiels, student body chair at Vista View High School, is always in control. When Pyke, the first pterodactyl-human hybrid transfer student, shows up at her school, Shiels desperately wants everyone to accept him and is ready to spin any of his dangerous actions in a positive light. Her worries begin to fade as the students not only accept him but are mysteriously drawn to him. Pyke's presence starts to awaken primal instincts among the students, and those he intimately connects with, including Shiels and her classmate Jocelyne, are marked with purple noses. The more Pyke influences Shiels's environment, the more she loses control, letting her other priorities—school, applying for college, her boyfriend—slip away. Shiels must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice in order to be with Pyke. The title of this novel will be a big draw, but readers looking for a steamy romance may be disappointed. This novel is more of a cautionary tale about falling for the wrong boy. Shiels is not a sympathetic character, but as with many tragedies, teens will continue reading to see what she does next. While Pyke's presence is a driving force of the book, he does not do or say all that much; little is known about his background other than that he has great chest muscles, is part dinosaur, has an accent, and is able to partially and fully change human girls into pterodactyls.