Paul Zindel
1) The pigman
Author
Language
English
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A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man. Two lonely high school students befriend a strange old man, Mr. Pignati. An intensely moving story of believably alienated young people.
Author
Language
English
Description
This play deals with a widow and her two daughters, one of whom finds fulfillment in a science project. Beatrice was a mother . . .and the embittered ringmaster of the circus Hunsdorfer featuring three generations of crazy ladies living under the sloppiest big top on earth. Nanny was no problem. She sat and stared and stayed silent as a venerable vegetable should. Ruth was half-mad and easily bought with an occasional cigarette. But how in the...
4) Loch
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it soon becomes obvious that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.
9) Raptor
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Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When Zack Norak's father, a paleontologist, joined a dig for dinosaur bones in Utah, Zack knew the expedition was a disaster waiting to happen. Why would any scientist waste his time on a bunch of skeletons? Even if these dinosaurs were called the "terrible lizards" of Utah, they were still just a bunch of old bones. But when Zack finds a giant egg that hatches a baby raptor, the teenager discovers there are more than dead bones at the dig. Soon he...
10) The gadget
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
14) The doom stone
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge.
15) Night of the bat
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Teenage Jake joins his father on an expedition to study bats in the Brazilian rain forest and finds the project menaced by a giant brain-eating bat.
16) The pigman (PBK)
Author
Pub. Date
2005, c1968
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Language
English
Description
Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man who has a terrible secret.
18) Runaway train
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Several convicts from a high-security prison escape the inhumane treatment of Chief Guard Ranken and break out into the icy Northeast wilderness. The cons flee onto a departing freight train only to find themselves prisoners on a speeding train that is hurtling toward certain derailment, its conductor dead of a sudden heart attack.
19) Mame
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
She'll coax the blues right out of your heart. Madcap Auntie Mame is suddenly her nephew's guardian in this sparkling adaptation of the Broadway hit.
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