num_pages: 160
description: Janet, a young Hatchery apprentice, runs away when she accidentally endangers a dinosaur egg.  Then she meets a gravely wounded Gryposaurus, a very rare dinosaur.  Entrusted with the dying Gryposaurus's newly laid egg, Janet knows she must brave the wilds of Dinotopia--and return to an uncertain reception at the Hatchery.  
language: English
title: Hatchling
titlecomplete: Hatchling (Dinotopia, #3)
genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Chapter Books, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Animals, Dinosaurs, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 591
series: Dinotopia: Complete
publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers