History Literature / Dinoverse

* RebelliousSpirit: Janine Farehouse is a CoolLoser who's able to intimidate the popular kids with her utter indifference to them and what they want. She's also a covert graffiti artist.

%%* BigManOnCampus: Mike.

%%* BodySnatcher: See {{Animorphism}}

* [[AnimalTalk Dinosaur Talk]]: Subverted. The main characters explicitly ''can't'' speak English, but they all have PsychicPowers while in these different bodies, and use them. They also make dinosaur noises, but it's clear that if they didn't have those psychic powers, understanding each other and the dinosaurs they encounter would be a lot more difficult.

%%* LovableAlphaBitch: Eventually, Candayce ends up in this slot.

%%* RebelliousSpirit: Janine Farehouse.
%%* ScienceFair: It all starts with one of those.

* SuperPersistentPredator: Moriarty in the first set, who follows them through earthquakes and over hundreds of miles, despite first meeting them on a beach full of gigantic sea turtles, far easier prey. Bertram once speculates that it's because as an ankylosaur, a tyrannosaur, a quetzalcoatlus (sometimes) and a leptoceratops, they're a very ''weird'' group and that might signal disease to him.

%%* TeenGenius: Bertram. It's mentioned in passing that Mr. London was like this once, too.

%%* TimeTravel
%%* {{Tomboy}}: Patience [=McCray=] from the second set.

* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: There's a form of this - [[CoolLoser Janine]] had a close friend who publicly rejected her to get into Candayce's inner circle, but in private told her that they could still be friends as long as no one knew. Unsurprisingly, Janine has a grudge against Candayce -- in the end, though, they work it out and become VitriolicBestBuds.

In the third set the formula changes. Now a whole horde of middle schoolers are sent back along with the MIND Machine. The main characters this time are Bertram again, [[CoolLoser new kid]] [[SurferDude Aaron]], [[TheBully JD "Judgement Day" Harms]], and [[SchoolIdol Claire]]. They take the bodies of a pair of brother ''Dilophosaurus'', a small ''Apatosaurus,'' and a ''Carcharodontosaurus''. They have to survive, try to fix the machine, and worry about a new plot involving alternate dimensions.

The first pair, ''I Was a Teenage T. Rex'' and ''The Teens Time Forgot'', (later re-released as a single volume)has Bertram and three other students sent back to the late Cretaceous period. The three other students, [[BigManOnCampus Mike]], [[AlphaBitch Candayce]], and [[RebelliousSpirit Janine]] get changed into a Tyrannosaurus rex, a leptoceratops, and a quetzalcoatlus, respectively, and Bertram becomes an ankylosaurus. They have to trek across the country to get to a certain point or risk being stuck in the Cretaceous forever.

The second pair has [[ClassRepresentative Will]], [[ClassClown Za]][[BrilliantButLazy ne]], [[{{Tomboy}} Patience]], and their teacher [[SchoolTeachers Mr. London]] get sent into the mid-Cretaceous and possess a denonychus, a type of brontosaurus, an acrocanthosaurus, and a hypsilophodon, respectively. Their task involves an amber key and preventing some kind of extinction event.

In the third set the formula changes. Now a whole horde of middle schoolers are sent back along with the MIND Machine. The main characters this time are Bertram again, [[CoolLoser new kid]] [[SurferDude Aaron]], [[TheBully JD "Judgement Day" Harms]], and [[SchoolIdol Claire]]. They take the bodies of a pair of brother dilophosaurus, a small apatosaurus, and a carcharodontosaurus. They have to survive, try to fix the machine, and worry about a new plot involving alternate dimensions.

%%* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs

* StockDinosaurs: Played straight and averted. There are some stock dinosaurs like T. rexes, ankylosaurs, and raptors, but the books also feature acrocanthosaurus, quetzalcoatlus and leptoceratops.