New Releases by Paul Zindel

P.C. travels with his uncle to Australia on a mission to find a mysterious buried treasure. Soon, its secrets lead him to a beautiful Aboriginal girl and a terrifying monster that haunts the ocean reef. But an evil geologist is also on the hunt for the hidden fortune and P.C. must race to find it first. It’s a deadly game—who will find the treasure, and who will lose their life?

Jackson is looking forward to visiting his aunt who has been busy working on an anthropological dig at Stonehenge in England. Jackson can''t wait to finally see the massive and mysterious stone formations in person. But then he witnesses a vicious attack on a young man, and another on his beloved aunt Sarah. A savage beast no one has ever seen before is on the prowl. Now it''s up to Jackson and his new friend, Alma, a gravedigger''s daughter, to stop the beast. All the clues lead back to Stonehenge, where he and Alma must risk their lives to solve the mystery of the monster stalking the countryside-before it''s too late.

Sarah and her brother have grown up next to the world’s largest garbage dump on Staten Island in New York City. Little do they know, thousands of rodents at the dump have mutated into gruesome, killer rats and one of the workers there has just been badly mauled. Without mercy, the rats wreak havoc and devistation upon the once-peaceful neighborhood, entering homes through kitchen sinks and toilets. Now the entire city stands on the brink of total infestation. Can the kids save millions of innocent people from the approaching and unrelenting rat horde?

Paul Zindel''s compelling and inspirational Pulitzer Prize-winning play that was made into a motion picture directed by Paul Newman starring Joanne Woodward. The old, converted vegetable shop where Tillie lives is more like a madhouse than a home. Tillie''s mother, Beatrice, is bitter and cruel, yet desperate for her daughters'' love. Her sister, Ruth, suffers epileptic fits and sneaks cigarettes every chance she gets. In the midst of chaos, Tillie struggles to keep her focus and dreams alive. Tillie — keeper of rabbits, dreamer of atoms, true believer in life, hope, and the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds.

Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man with a terrible secret.

Pulitzer Prize drama of a disturbed mother who vents frustration upon her two daughters. Poignant and disturbing.

Four friends, Two couples, One year that will change their lives. Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing to take the first tentative steps toward a romance of their own. Yet before either couple can enjoy true happiness, life conspires against them, threatening to destroy their friendships completely.

Near the end of World War II, scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are working on a project that will alter the fate of the world. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Orr is living at a top secret military base with his father who is a leading physicist building the atomic bomb. Stephen realizes the dangers involved when one of the scientists becomes hospitalized as a result of working with the project. The scientist alerts him to disasters that could come from The Gadget. Stephen feels it is up to him and his friend Tilanov to find the answers that lie behind this veil of secrecy.

P.C.''s anthropologist dad invites P.C. and Mac along for a holiday boat trip down the Amazon, but Mr. Hawke''s dream trip turns into a nightmare for everyone when they realize they''re trapped on board a little steamer with a big killer...

P.C. and Mackenzie''s junior class trip ends in disaster when practically all the kids witness classmate Timmy Warner plunge to his death over a 300-foot waterfall. But several months later, the class vice president swears that he''s seen Timmy at Venice Beach, California. P.C. and Mackenzie follow a trail of clues that evolve from deception to abduction to a second murder - and a life-and-death chase along the cliffs of Malibu Canyon.

Young P. C. Hawke and his buddy Mackenzie search for the real killer of the Museum of Natural History''s chief biologist after their friend, a custodian named Tom, is falsely accused.

This collection of stories for young adults feature award-winning authors including Paul Zindel, Adele Griffin, Jon Scieska, David Lubar, and others, who share real-life experiences of their youth through fiction. Each story is introduced with an essay by the author that describes the experience in the author''s life that inspired the story.

THE STORY: A family of exuberant and startled kids are left to fend for themselves by their mother and father--who have taken off to pursue forever a life of betting at trotter racetracks and playing blackjack in Native American casinos! An expandab

Deep in the Amazon jungle, members of a scientific team are disappearing. Fearing his father, a bat biologist, is in danger, Jake flies to Brazil to investigate. There is something waiting for him high up in the rainforest canopy though - an ancient killing machine wanting a gruesome revenge.

An account of Paul Zindel''s teenage years on Staten Island, when his life was enriched by finding his own personal pigman, or mentor.

Funny, realistic story about the adventures of 5 fifth grade friends. The group nominates Max for student council rep.

The Pigman has been dead for four months when John and Lorraine visit his empty house-and discover a down-and-out old man on the run from the tax collector. Convinced he''s a sign from beyond the grave, John and Lorraine decide they''ve been given a chance to make up for what happened to the Pigman. Suddenly they''re deep in another zany adventure with a surprising old man. What the learn along the way is the Pigman''s Legacy.

A young girl desperately tries to become a star before tragedy strikes.

Two teenagers believe a neighbor, an undertaker, has murdered his wife but can''t convince anyone else.

THE STORY: The setting is the lavish reception room of the new multi-million-dollar Alamo Theatre, a regional theatre complex that has grown from a small operation in a converted church to one of the glories of Texas culture. As the action begins w

Two alienated teenagers learn to cope with their personal problems by being honest with each other.

A little boy tells of his special relationship with his mother.

THE STORIES: LET ME HEAR YOU WHISPER. The action is set in the laboratory of the American Biological Association Development for the Advancement of Brain Analysis, where curious experiments involving various mammals are taking place. Helen, a newly

THE STORY: In the tiny living quarters behind the Greenwich Village candy store which she operates with her husband, crowded with her forty-year collection of movie magazines, Mildred Wild has virtually escaped from reality into the dream world con

A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.