cover image Interstellar Pig

Interstellar Pig

William Sleator. Starfire, $3.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-553-25564-5

Barney, 16, is drawn into a board game with strangers who have moved into the house next door; only when he is fully controlled by the three does he find out that the game is real, and losing means the destruction of Earth. PW reported that ""Sleator's taut tale will undoubtedly raise reader's hackles and incite nervous laughs.'' (12-up)