William Sleator, Author . Puffin $5.99 (161p) ISBN 978-0-14-230217-0
In this prequel to The Boxes, 12-year-old Marco and his psychic, hyper-sensitive sister find a strange tunnel in their basement leading them to another world inhabited by odd, blind, religious beings. "The book is riveting for the ethical...
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William Sleator, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (198p) ISBN 978-0-14-130639-1
Strange creatures whose existence is threatened by loggers require human donors to survive. PW said that this novel ""may well leave readers with some soul-searching questions."" Ages 8-12. (Oct.)
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Children's Books $15.99 (150p) ISBN 978-0-525-46131-9
As in his recent Rewind, Sleator's mildly comic time-travel adventure is the story of a boy who prevents his own death by healing family relationships. Computer geek Chris is in perpetual conflict with Lulu, his stereotyped 13-year-old blonde...
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Books $15.99 (198p) ISBN 978-0-525-45598-1
With all the moral complexity of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Sleator's (The Spirit House) latest novel revolves around a community of small, pasty creatures that live underground and harvest the humans who inhabit the surface. The Beasties have...
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Books $14.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-525-45104-4
After falling off his bicycle into a toxic waste dump, Jared develops the ability to read other people's thoughts. He is catapulted into psychic combat with his amoral grandmother and sociopathically manipulative cousin, both of whom are also mind-re
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William Sleator, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-034582-7
In this SF adventure, teenager Max becomes involved with time travel and parallel universes; PW said, ``Sleator's latest high-tech thriller is compelling and thought-provoking, and offers a clever surprise ending.'' Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-44530-2
Recent high school graduate Max is looking forward to his visit to Mercury Labs, an honor for top science students, when his mother tells him he's already been there--yesterday. Then Eve, the daughter of the Lab's top scientist, Dr. Sylvan, calls...
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Children's Books $15.99 (120p) ISBN 978-0-525-46130-2
Fans of Sleator's creature features (The Boxes; The Beasties) will find this tale of redemption less grotesque, but satisfying nonetheless. Eleven-year-old Peter finds out he is adopted, strives to gain glimmers of affection from his stoic,...
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Books $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-525-46012-1
Like Pandora, 15-year-old orphan Annie has been given a box she is forbidden to open, opens it nonetheless and unleashes something horrible. But Sleator adds a twist: Annie has a second box. Moreover the telepathic crab-like beasts that came out of...
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Books $16.99 (172p) ISBN 978-0-525-45463-2
Leo is driving his friend Tim to the bus station so the latter can sneak off to New York to show his drawings to a publisher, and neither teen is prepared for what happens next. They get abducted by aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft, where...
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Books $14.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-45283-6
Sleator brings the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of Thailand alive in lush detail, but the story itself, a sequel to The Spirit House, doesn't come alive until halfway through. Readers who tough out the repetitious narrative and plodding...
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William Sleator, Author Dutton Books $13.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-525-44276-9
Once again, Sleator treats us to the best that YA science fiction can offer: averageand sometimes not-so-averageteenagers facing the physical and mathematical absurdities of our universe. Laura's determination to get into medical school has cast her
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William Sleator, Author Starfire $3.5 (0p) 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
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William Sleator, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-130810-4
The ill-starred pioneer family of Mary Jane Auch's Journey to Nowhere and Frozen Summer returns in The Road to Home. This installment, set in 1817, finds 13-year-old Remembrance Nye leading her younger siblings back from upstate New York to their...
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William Sleator, Author . Amulet $16.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-8109-9356-3
Sleator (House of Stairs
; Hell Phone
) misses the mark with a dystopian near-future thriller that takes the doctrine of “No Child Left Behind” doctrine to extremes. The eponymous test (it “not only left kids, it got rid of themR
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William Sleator, Author . Abrams/Amulet $16.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5479-3
Sleator's (The Boy Who Couldn't Die
) lean, fast-paced horror tale moves from fascinating to far-fetched, all under a palpable blanket of darkness. Nick, a high-school junior, decides to get a cell phone so he can make calls to his...
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William Sleator, Author . Abrams/Amulet $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5858-6
Sleator (The Boy Who Couldn't Die
) turns one of modern science's most puzzling fields into fodder for suspense, with mixed results, in this novel narrated by 14-year-old Susan. Her brother, 16-year-old Gary, recently became ill and is...
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William Sleator, Author . Penguin/Firebird $6.99 (212p) ISBN 978-0-14-240086-9
PW
noted that Interstellar Pig
, the first title, about a boy's addiction to the eponymous game played by the odd trio next door, "will raise readers' hackles and incite nervous laughs." Parasite
continues the game even after the...
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William Sleator, Author . Abrams/Amulet $16.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4824-2
Sleator (House of Stairs
) journeys to the voodoo-zombie lore of the Caribbean for his latest thriller, about a boy whose fear of death prompts him to give up his mortal soul. Narrator Ken has just buried his best friend who was killed in a plane...
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William Sleator, Author . Dutton $16.99 (161p) ISBN 978-0-525-46441-9
This prequel to Sleator's open-ended thriller, The Boxes, answers almost all the questions readers of the first book might have had about the pathetic, crab-like creatures and (heroine Annie's) mysterious, ageless Uncle Marco. Though missing
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William Sleator and Ann Monticone. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8428-8
As this thriller begins, Isaac, newly
arrived in town, is totally miserable: “A mental darkness surrounded Isaac. He was fourteen, and he had no friends.” His father has recently died; his pianist mother is in the hospital, leaving him in charge of
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William Sleator, Author, Puffin, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-038441-3
Aliens abducted Tim and Leo. Now Tim is missing, Leo has amnesia and everyone is endangered by extraterrestrials. ""For those whose idea of mind candy includes plenty of slimy creepy-crawlies, it may be just the ticket,"" said PW. Ages 10-14. (June)
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