Paul Zindel, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7868-2554-7
Cut from the same cloth as Zindel's previous horror stories (Reef of Death; Rats), this novel has yet another scientific-minded teen matching wits with a mutated beast. Here, a gigantic bat terrorizes the research team of Jake's father, Dr....
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Paul Zindel, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-22951-3
The 13-year-old son of a scientist, at work on the atomic bomb, narrates this WWII novel, in which the author reveals the moral dilemmas lurking behind a veil of secrecy with "page-turning immediacy," said PW
in a starred review. Ages 12-u
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Paul Zindel, Author . Hyperion $5.99 (129p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1226-4
A 15-year-old boy joins his father's research team in the Amazon, and a gigantic bat terrorizes the campsite. In PW
's words, "There is plenty of excitement to satiate readers who crave a thrill on every page." Ages 10-14. (Sept.)
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Paul Zindel, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14 (167p) ISBN 978-0-06-023353-2
Still devastated by his break-up with a suicidal girlfriend, teenage playwright David Mahooley suffers from a bad case of writer's block. A torrent of inspiration is set loose, however, from the moment fast-talking, flamboyant Della Jones storms...
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Paul Zindel, Author Starfire $4.5 (176p) ISBN 978-0-553-56727-4
Teenage playwright David Mahooley suffers from writer's block until he meets the flamboyant Della Jones; one of Zindel's more breathless outings. Ages 12-up. (Dec.)
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Paul Zindel, Author Harper Teen $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-024726-3
Zindel (Loch; see David & Della, below) wastes no time on subtleties or philosophizing in this all-action supernatural/SF thriller. Even before Jackson, a 15-year-old New Yorker, arrives at his anthropologist aunt's lodgings near Stonehenge, he gets
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Paul Zindel, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-024728-7
Continuing his run of thrill-a-chapter adventures set in exotic locations (e.g., Loch and The Doom Stone), Zindel now takes readers to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. There, Maruul, an Aboriginal girl, and her American friend, PC McPhee, dive for...
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Paul Zindel, Author Hyperion Books $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0338-5
This latest of Zindel's (Reef of Death) thrill-a-chapter adventure stories serves up mutant dinosaurs as the monsters du jour. The story--centered around a teenage boy's hunt for a baby raptor--is densely seasoned with sequences of giant reptiles...
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Paul Zindel, Author Hyperion Books $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1309-4
Set on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, this ""thrill-a-chapter adventure... offers a maximum of gore and gimmicks,"" said PW. ""On a literary-merit scale, this deep-sea escapade falls several leagues below the author's best work, but rises above...
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Paul Zindel, Author Hyperion Books $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0339-2
Zindel (Reef of Death) churns out another variation of his teen versus man-eating beast theme. Again, he relies heavily on horror, gore and gimmicks. The first scene graphically depicts a man being devoured by a mob of vicious rats, and the rest of...
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Paul Zindel, Author HarperCollins $16.89 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-028255-4
Zindel maintains the page-turning immediacy of his recent novels (The Doom Stone; Reef of Death) while examining a serious piece of WWII history: the making of the atomic bomb. Through the eyes of 13-year-old Stephen, the son of one of the...
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Paul Zindel, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-026862-6
Eugene Dingman of Bayonne, N.J., begins a diary on his 15th birthday, the day he learns that he's to be a waiter at a posh summer hotel in New York's Adirondack Mountains. The chronicle that follows comprises a marvelous blend of hyperbole and...
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Paul Zindel, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-06-020857-8
Zindel's ( The Pigman ; My Darling, My Hamburger ) fans will find that his autobiography has much more than a little in common with his fiction: black humor abounds, and the whipcrack narration is replete with genuine teenage sarcasm. Rather than...
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Paul Zindel, Author, Jeff Mangiat, Illustrator Skylark Books $3.5 (117p) ISBN 978-0-553-48084-9
The Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch series kicks off with a rather bland offering. Four friends--two girls, two boys--solemnly pledge to make their year in fifth grade ``cram full of laughs, good times, and mind-boggling adventures.'' To this end they...
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Paul Zindel, Author, Wayne McLoughlin, Illustrator Harper Teen $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-024542-9
With its prehistoric quarry and gore-spattered action (``Erdon's last conscious thought was the realization that he was being chewed in half''), Zindel's latest calls to mind a waterlogged version of Jurassic Park. For years, Loch and his spunky...
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Paul Zindel, Author, Harriet Ziefert, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-06-026877-0
Zindel's novel is a paean to teachers (the extraordinary ones) and to Manhattan. Its protagonists, Zelda and Henry, each have a rich store of enthusiasms and views, but most of these diverge. For instance, ``Zelda is worried about the regular death...
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