Snyder, Midori

When teenaged violinist Cassie Brittman's grandfather becomes ill, she and her mother return to her mother's childhood home where an ancient conflict involving their family clan resurfaces.

Here, on this hidden island, intelligent dinosaurs and shipwrecked humans have joined together to build a fantastic world. Once you visit this land of mystical ruins, shimmering cities, and unexplored caverns, you'll never want to leave.

The Queen's Quarter Knot, destroyed two hundred years earlier by the Fire Queen, is pulled tight once again with the arrival of the queens of air, Earth, and water who restore freedom to Oran.

The Fire Queen's grip on Oran, which she has held since destroying her rival queens of air, water, and Earth, begins to loosen with the re-emergence of magic in the forests and fields far from her control.

The Fire Queen, having destroyed her rival queens of Earth, air, and water two hundred years earlier, and killed every child with a trace of elemental magic, feels her power threatened when rumors that four young women gifted with ancient magic are gaining a following in Oran.

When Cassie's grandfather falls ill, she and her mother return to his farm, where Cassie discovers a wonderful, terrible secret about her family.

Janet proves her worth as a Hatchery apprentice when she helps the injured dinosaur Kranog save her only egg on the hidden island of Dinotopia, which is inhabited by humans and intelligent dinosaurs.