Rex
Cody B. Stewart, Mark Rogers, and Adam Rocke
Genre: Middle Grade
Publisher: Common Deer Press
Date of Publication: October 5, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9959729-1-6
Number of pages: 320 pages
Cover Artist: Common Deer Press, Ellie Sipal
When eleven-year-old TJ finds a
weird looking egg in the Florida Everglades after a tropical
storm rips
through, naturally he takes it home for
identification. It could be the egg of
a mutant duck or something, which would be awesome.
Problem is, the egg doesn’t look
like it came from a mallard, even a mutated one—it’s too
big and heavy
and…strange. So he hides it away in
his closet and continues on with his life
as usual, doing his best to ignore the creepy men
constantly banging at his
front door and the significant rise in military helicopter
sightings in his
typically quiet neighborhood. Then one
day he comes home from school and it’s
as though a cyclone has gone through his bedroom.
Suddenly, TJ knows he’s dealing
with something a little more interesting—and a little
more deadly—than a duck.
