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Books like Dino-Mike: 9 series to read next

Dino-Mike is science fiction and adventure, set in contemporary, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dino-Mike is 6 books, 2015–2016.

“Dino-Mike finds a portal to the Jurassic period in this chapter book adventure!”
from the catalogue description of Dino-Mike and the Jurassic Portal

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Kairos
Danny Dunn
Roland Smith's Cryptid Series
Tarzan
Watership Down
House of Secrets
Dirk Pitt
Wolves Chronicles
Miss Pickerell

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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Danny DunnSeries

seriesJay Williams & Raymond Abrashkin15 books1956

Set in mid 20th century.

“Danny Dunn is the young protagonist of a long-running mid-century American juvenile science fiction series by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams, starting in 1956.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint →

Roland Smith's Cryptid SeriesSeries

seriesRoland Smith5 books1998

Tense in tone.

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TarzanUniverse

universe100 books1912

Set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
from the catalogue description

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Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About quests and found family, set in countryside & village and our world.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

House of SecretsSeries

seriesChris Columbus, Ned Vizzini & Chris Rylander3 books2013

About quests.

“Rights to the book were sold in 12 foreign territories.”
from the catalogue description

Start with House of Secrets →

Dirk PittSeries

seriesClive Cussler12 books1973

Thriller & suspense, tense in tone, set in our world.

“Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished.”
from the catalogue description of Pacific Vortex!

Start with Pacific Vortex! →

Wolves ChroniclesSeries

seriesJoan Aiken12 books1962

Set in 19th century and british isles.

“The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase →

Miss PickerellSeries

seriesEllen MacGregor & Dora Pantell18 books1950

Science fiction, adventurous in tone.

Start with Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Dino-Mike?: Kairos — the closest match to Dino-Mike on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dino-Mike?: Dino-Mike and the Jurassic Portal. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dino-Mike.
How big is Dino-Mike?: Dino-Mike is 6 books, 2015–2016.

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