Jurassic Park: Adventures is a book trilogy written by Scott Ciencin. They feature characters Dr. Alan Grant, Eric Kirby, Amanda Kirby, and Paul Kirby. They were all together in the 2001 film, Jurassic Park III. They mainly focus on Eric Kirby's adventures. Note that these short novels are not considered canon within the Jurassic Park universe.
Jurassic Park Adventures: Survivor
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This book revolves around young Eric Kirby, and reveals a little more about the character. In Survivor, we learn that going to Isla Sorna in a parasailing trip was Ben Hildebrand's idea, in an attempt to please Eric, who is obsessed with dinosaurs. Unfortunately, an unseen creature kills the boat's operators and Eric and Ben crash onto the island's jungle. Ben suffers internal injury and dies, and Eric has to survive by himself in the island, using only his intelligence and knowledge as weapons. During his staying in the island, Eric discovers several things; for example, that Isla Sorna had once been inhabited by a small number of humans who had left after the island was bought. Also, that the island's native wildlife, including sloths, rats and snakes, still survive despite the introduction of dinosaurs. He even "befriends" a young Iguanodon, whom he nicknames "Iggy". During most of the book, Eric focuses his energies on finding a way to communicate with the outer world, so that they will not think he's dead and send someone to rescue him. However, he eventually sacrifices his only hope to do this in order to save Iggy's life from a pack of vicious raptors. Survivor doesn´t cover the entire eight week period Eric was stranded in the island; the last part of the book skips to the moment in which Eric hears a pack of raptors chasing some humans (just moments before he saves Alan Grant as seen in Jurassic Park III). This is the only Jurassic Park Adventures book that's written in the first person (Eric himself tells the whole story).
Jurassic Park Adventures: Prey
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The second book happens some time after the events in Jurassic Park III. Alan Grant wants to save the dinosaurs of Isla Sorna from a second extinction, and to ensure that no one enters the dangerous island again. In order to do this, he has to present himself before the UN and needs a witness. He choses Eric Kirby to be his witness; however, the boy is eager to return to the island despite his terrifying experiences, and he blackmails Grant; he will only testify for him if he takes him to the island. Grant reluctantly agrees; however, he tricks Eric and takes him to the biological station during Christmas times, when there's almost no one there and no dangerous operations in the jungle are being lead. However, Eric's frustraring staying in the station becomes into a frantic adventure when a group of teenagers land on the island. Their leader, Simon Tunney, wants to achieve fame and fortune by filming a "documentary" on the island's dinosaurs, and assures his peers that they don´t have to be afraid of dinosaurs if they follow what he calls "the island's rules". However, they soon get lost in the jungle and discover that the dinosaurs don´t play by any rules at all. Now it is up to Eric, and to Grant's reduced team, to save the boys before they get eaten.
Jurassic Park Adventures: Flyers
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The third book in the series centers once again on Eric Kirby and Alan Grant's relationship, and in the Pteranodons that are seen escaping Isla Sorna at the end of Jurassic Park III. Eric, along with his mother Amanda Kirby, and Alan Grant travel to the Universal studios in Orlando, Florida, where they have been invited to tell the world about their adventures in Isla Sorna. However, the trip becomes a nightmare when the pterosaurs, attracted by the abundance of water (in the park's artificial lagoons) and food (the human visitors), decide to stop there and start attacking and mauling people. No one wants the animals to be destroyed, so Grant, Amanda, Eric and an annoying reporter named Manly Wilks come up with a plan to capture them... without being killed at it.
Notes
The books introduce new dinosaurs.
Survivor reveals the Velociraptor in Jurassic Park are so big is due to InGen mixing DNA with the Deinonychus.
The Spinosaurus isn't featured in Survivor, though in JP3, Eric says he seen it. Maybe he saw it after the Events on the Book or During the Film when the Spino was offscreen
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