Dinosaurs Before Dark vs Ghost Town at Sundown: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Dinosaurs Before Dark Dinosaurs Before Dark Mary Pope Osborne · 1992 ★★★★☆ 4.5 80 pages · ≈ 1 h 29 m · Moderate

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs. ---------- German-language description: Ein Baumhaus mitten im…

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Cover of Ghost Town at Sundown Ghost Town at Sundown Mary Pope Osborne · 1997 ★★★★☆ 4.0 76 pages · ≈ 1 h 24 m · Moderate

In this tenth title in the Magic Tree House series, Jack and Annie are headed to Rattlesnake Flats, 1895. They come face-to-face with a ghost, some rustlers, and a misplaced cowboy, all in the search to answer Morgan's…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Dinosaurs Before DarkGhost Town at Sundown
Goodreads — 4.0 (15029)
Hardcover 3.7 (50) 4.0 (19)
Google Books 5.0 (1) 4.0 (3)
Apple Books 4.5 (1014) 4.5 (157)

Reception

Dinosaurs Before DarkGhost Town at Sundown
Ratings 1014 15029
Editions 58 24
Citations 2 —
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read — 3720
Reading it now — 744
Written reviews — 578
Wikipedia attention 19585 —
Pages 80 76

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