Paul Zindel Books In Order

Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch Books In Order

  1. Attack of the Killer Fishfingers (1993)
  2. Fright Party! (1993)
  3. City Safari (1994)
  4. The 100% Laugh Riot (1994)
  5. Fifth Grade Safari (1993)

Zone Unknown Books In Order

  1. Loch (1994)
  2. The Doom Stone (1995)
  3. Raptor (1998)
  4. Rats (1999)
  5. Reef of Death (1998)
  6. Night of the Bat (2001)

P.C. Hawke Books In Order

  1. The Scream Museum (2001)
  2. The Surfing Corpse (2001)
  3. The E-Mail Murders (2001)
  4. The Lethal Gorilla (2001)
  5. The Square Root of Murder (2002)
  6. Death on the Amazon (2002)
  7. The Gourmet Zombie (2002)
  8. The Phantom of 86th Street (2002)
  9. The Houdini Whodunit (2002)
  10. Death by CD (2004)
  11. The Petrified Parrot (2004)
  12. Camp Megadeath (2003)

Novels

  1. The Pigman (1968)
  2. My Darling, My Hamburger (1969)
  3. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (1970)
  4. I Never Loved Your Mind (1970)
  5. I Love My Mother (1975)
  6. Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball (1976)
  7. Confessions of a Teenage Baboon (1977)
  8. The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas (1978)
  9. A Star for the Latecomer (1980)
  10. The Pigman’s Legacy (1980)
  11. The Girl Who Wanted a Boy (1981)
  12. To Take a Dare (1982)
  13. When a Darkness Falls (1984)
  14. Harry and Hortense at Hormone High (1984)
  15. The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman (1987)
  16. A Begonia for Miss Applebaum (1989)
  17. David and Della (1993)
  18. Amulets Against the Dragon Forces (1998)
  19. The Gadget (2000)
  20. Bats (2000)

Omnibus

  1. Let Me Hear You Whisper and the Ladies Should Be in Bed (1998)

Plays

  1. Let Me Hear You Whisper (1970)
  2. And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971)
  3. The Secret Affairs Of Mildred Wild (1973)
  4. Every Seventeen Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy! (2000)

Non fiction

  1. The Pigman and Me (1991)

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Paul Zindel Books Overview

Attack of the Killer Fishfingers

In their first adventure, a fun loving group of fifth graders confronts the Nasty Blobs, two of the meanest kids in school, and they help a new kid run for class office.

Loch

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Sonar screens stalk the astonishing, massive water creatures that have been sighted in a remote Vermont lake. Fifteen-year-old Loch Perkins is aboard the Revelation, a high-tech search yacht, when the first creature explodes from the deep. With deadly, frightening power, it almost devours his girlfriend, Sarah, the daughter of a wealthy publishing mogul. The expedition’s photographer — hoping for a shot that will make his career — is not as lucky…
. Suddenly the hunters have become the hunted.

In the days that follow, Loch plays a deadly game to save those he loves from the jaws of these prehistoric killing machines. At the same time, he tries to prevent the creatures from being destroyed by a man who will stop at nothing to be the first to obtain proof that one of the world’s most enduring legends is based upon fact.

Paul Zindel’S LOCH is an edge-of-the-chair, electrifying rite of passage — with teeth. Recently, locals near a remote, deep Vermont lake reported sighting massive water creatures. Fifteen-year-old Loch is thrilled to find himself part of an expedition to prove that one of the century’s most enduring legends could indeed be based upon astonishing fact. Then, suddenly trapped at the end of the lake by a wall of skiffs, trawlers, and a high-tech search yacht, one of the dagger-toothed beasts explodes from the deep with deadly, frightening power. Now, the hunters have become the hunted. In the hours that follow, Loch must use every ounce of his courage to rescue the ones he loves from the jaws of these prehistoric killing machines-and discover a way to prevent these mysteriously intelligent creatures from being exterminated. ‘Fast, furious, and masterful.’-K.

1995 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers ALA
1995 Books for the Teen Age NY Public Library

The Doom Stone

A killer beast half man, half apelike terrorizes the English plain on which Stonehenge lies. Fifteen year old Jackson Cauley, with the help of his anthropologist aunt and a local girl, has tracked down the predator’s lair. But the source of the beast s power lies in the ancient Doom Stone of Stonehenge, and unless its secret is unlocked, the deadly slaughter will continue. 1995 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers ALA1996 Books for the Teen Age NY Public Library1997 98 Texas Lone Star Reading List1998 Soaring Eagle Book Award Honor Book WY

Raptor

Out in the mountains, Zack and his friend, Uta, discover what they think is a large fossilized dinosaur egg. This could make their fortune! Zack takes it home to keep it safe. Only the egg isn’t fossilized it’s hatching! And there’s an angry mother dinosaur out there, who wants her baby back.

Rats

Sarah McGraw lives with her father and brother on the edge of town, beside a garbage dump. Her father manages the dump, but it’s a job that’s growing out of control, and the rats at the dump are mutating and attacking the workers. Sarah’s father needs to work fast.

Reef of Death

PC could really use your help. It’s a nuthouse down here!Seventeen year old PC can’t resist his uncle Cliff’s frantic call and is soon aboard a plane to Australia. Within hours of arriving, PC realizes that his uncle has gotten himself into an even more bizarre predicament than usual, and that Cliff is counting on him to unravel the threads of a mystery linking: a missing scuba diver, presumed dead; Maruul, a beautiful Aboriginal girl suffering from amnesia; a strange map based on a legend of a sacred treasure; an eerie, seemingly deserted ship; and a huge, horrible creature that lurks in the depths beneath the reef. Trying to help the shaken young girl, PC and Cliff return to the reef where Maruul’s brother vanished and take up the search for the Aboriginal treasure that will save the people of Maruul’s tribe. But someone else is looking for the treasure too and when the two groups collide, a lethal game of hideand seek is played out beneath the deep and bloody waters of the reef. Seventeen year old PC McPhee is intrigued with the bizarre details of a deadly mystery’a missing scuba diver, a hidden treasure, a seemingly deserted ship, a corrupt scientist, a beautiful girl suffering from amnesia, and a deadly creature prowling the depths of an Australian reef. PC is convinced that these are all strange pieces to a dangerous puzzle. When he teams up with a beautiful girl, Maruul, he soon realizes that they are in a race against time to solve this mystery if they are to save her Aboriginal village’and their own lives. Paul Zindel has created a spine tingling adventure that will thrill readers with its startling events. Young Adult’s Choices for 2000 IRA

Night of the Bat

When Indian workers begin to disappear from an expedition into the Amazon, fifteen year old Jake fears that his father, a bat biologist, is in great danger. Against his dad’s wishes, Jake flies to Brazil and joins his father’s research team, working high in the canopy of a remote stretch of the rain forest. Unfortunately, Jake’s first climb up the rope bridges and suspended walkways of the dense forest leads him to discover the mutilated bodies of the missing Indians and triggers a terrifying, explosive attack by an unknown winged beast. For a while the biologists and workers hunt the savage beast, but when Jake’s father is attacked, it becomes clear that the hunters are now the hunted. Jake realizes that it is up to him to find some way of stopping the nightmarish creature before it returns to slaughter the rest of the expedition.

The Scream Museum

Book 1 of the P. C. Hawke Mysteries Pulitzer Prize winning Author P. C. Hawke and his partner in sleuthing, Mackenzie, are shocked to learn that their friend Tom is accused of murdering the chief biologist of the Museum of Natural History. Digging deeper, they discover at the heart of the mystery a famous necklace, an anthropologist trained in hypnosis, and a fat hairy tarantula named Aristotle. Included in Young Adult 10 only.

The Surfing Corpse

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.

The E-Mail Murders

When P.C. and Mackenzie are invited to join Mac’s dad on a business trip in Monaco, they are thrilled. But their luxurious vacation is cut short when a serial killer thought to be long retired suddenly strikes again…
in their hotel!

The Lethal Gorilla

A scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park turns up dead, and P.C. and Mackenzie are sure it’s no accident. There’s only one way to get a lethal dose of gorilla blood into an unsuspecting human on purpose.

The Square Root of Murder

When the Grim Reaper strikes the math department at a nearby university, P.C. and Mackenzie do some homework of their own and discover that almost everyone parents, teachers, and students alike had a motive to get this nutty professor out of the way.

Death on the Amazon

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…

The Gourmet Zombie

The most famous chefs in New York are dropping like flies each seeming to die accidentally. But P.C. and Mac notice a bizarre connection: every one has met his maker courtesy of his signature dish! Who is killing the cooks of Gotham, and, whats more, will there be a decent cook left alive to cater P.C. and Mac’s joint sixteenth birthday bash?

The Phantom of 86th Street

Serena hasn’t been herself lately. She has been having sudden lapses of memory and acting like a completely different person one she doesn’t like very much. To add to her confusion, she knows that someone has been following her. It all started the night an elderly woman helped her. Now Serena is beginning to wonder, who was that woman? And what has she done to Serena?

The Pigman

John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen have to tell about something that just happened to them, about an experience too overwhelming to keep private.

The two high school sophomores come from constricting, unhappy homes, and although life seems tolerable since they have found each other, there is still much to be desired. Unusual circumstances introduce them to a lonely old man with an awful secret. An intense friendship results, and together the three create a strange, unreal world out of their zaniness and laughter.

But the very energy which built this world soon works to destroy it, and John and Lorraine are left again with their own reality.

This perceptive novel has a fresh, startlingly unsentimental story to tell about two young people searching for a way out of emptiness.

Two high school sophomores tell of the tragic consequences of their friendship for a lonely man.

Notable Children’s Books 1940 1970 ALA
Best of the Best Books YA 1966 1988 ALA
1969 Fanfare Honor List The Horn Book
Outstanding Children’s Books of 1968 NYT
Best Children’s Books of 1968 Book World

My Darling, My Hamburger

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.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds

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.

I Never Loved Your Mind

Records the relationship of Dewey and Yvette, two high school dropouts working in a hospital.

Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball

This is a story about 2 young misfits. Marsh Mellow & Edna Shinglebox. It is about how they tackle love and life for the first time.

Confessions of a Teenage Baboon

A young boy becomes caught in the struggle between good witches and bad witches.

The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas

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

A Star for the Latecomer

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

The Pigman’s Legacy

The Pigman’s return…
Four months after the Pigman died, John and Lorraine are passing by their old friend’s empty house when they receive the shock of their lives: An elderly man has taken up residence in the abandoned home. Convinced this down and out recluse is 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 a chance to make things right, once and for all.

The Girl Who Wanted a Boy

A fifteen year old scientific whiz who feels like a clod around boys falls in love for the first time with an auto mechanic whose picture she has seen.

Harry and Hortense at Hormone High

Two teenagers think they may have found a hero in a schizophrenic boy who thinks he is Icarus.

The Gadget

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.

The Pigman and Me

The author recalls the year that he and his family lived in Travis, New York, and he was best friends with Jennifer Wolupopski and met Nonno Frankie Vivona, who became his pigman. By the author of The Pigman. AB. SLJ.

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