Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The pigman The pigman Paul Zindel Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man with a terrible secret. OL15839090W
David & Della David & Della Paul Zindel David Mahooley, a teenage playwright suffering from writer's block, finds himself drawn into the passionate world of a flamboyant, alcoholic young actress with a talent for lying. OL15842349W
The scream museum The scream museum Paul Zindel P.C. Hawke and his partner-in-sleuthing, Mackenzie, are shocked to learn that their friend Tom is accused of murdering the chief biologist at the Museum of Natural History. Unable to believe Tom woul… OL15867544W
Night of the bat Night of the bat Paul Zindel Teenage Jake joins his father on an expedition to study bats in the Brazilian rain forest and finds the project menaced by a giant brain-eating bat. OL17741058W
Attack of the killer fishsticks Attack of the killer fishsticks Paul Zindel When Dave and the other members of the Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch decide to help a new kid named Max run in fifth grade class elections, they face off with the Nasty Blobs, two of the most rotten, creep… OL1815086W
Death on the Amazon Death on the Amazon Paul Zindel As teenagers P.C. and Mackenzie, amateur detectives, escort a mummy down the Amazon river in Peru on behalf of P.C.'s archeologist father, they investigate whether the murder of a fellow passenger is… OL1815090W
Night of the bat Night of the bat Paul Zindel Teenage Jake joins his father on an expedition to study bats in the Brazilian rain forest and finds the project menaced by a giant brain-eating bat. OL1815119W
The Girl Who Wanted a Boy The Girl Who Wanted a Boy Paul Zindel 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. OL1815144W
The pigman & me The pigman & me Paul Zindel An account of Paul Zindel's teenage years on Staten Island, when his life was enriched by finding his own personal pigman, or mentor. OL1815146W
Reef of death Reef of death Paul Zindel While helping a beautiful Aboriginal girl search for her people's missing treasure near the Great Barrier Reef, seventeen-year-old PC finds himself fighting an evil scientist and a deadly underwater … OL1815148W
The scream museum The scream museum Paul Zindel When their friend Tom is accused of murdering the chief biologist at the Museum of Natural History, P.C. and Mackenzie discover a mystery involving a world-famous necklace, an anthropologist trained … OL1815149W
A begonia for Miss Applebaum A begonia for Miss Applebaum Paul Zindel Discovering that their beloved former teacher Miss Applebaum is terminally ill, fifteen-year-old Henry and his friend Zelda accompany her on her excursions to the colorful parts of New York City and … OL1815153W
Harry and Hortense at Hormone High Harry and Hortense at Hormone High Paul Zindel Two teenagers think they may have found a hero in a schizophrenic boy who thinks he is Icarus. OL1815155W
Doom Stone Doom Stone Paul Zindel When fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the plains surrounding ancient Stoneheng… OL1815160W
The undertaker's gone bananas The undertaker's gone bananas Paul Zindel Two teenagers believe a neighbor, an undertaker, has murdered his wife but can't convince anyone else. OL1815163W
I Never Loved Your Mind I Never Loved Your Mind Paul Zindel Records the relationship of Dewey and Yvette, two high school dropouts working in a hospital. OL1815164W
Bats Bats Paul Zindel Deep in the Amazon jungle, members of a scientific expedition are disappearing. OL21182159W
Rats Rats Paul Zindel When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them. Suggested level: inter… OL21587701W
Das Haus am Anfang der Strasse Das Haus am Anfang der Strasse Paul Zindel In getrennten Aufzeichnungen beschreiben Lorraine und John, beide 16, ihre Beziehung zu einem todkranken alten Mann. Zusammen mit ihm und einer ehemaligen Krankenschwester erleben sie aufregende, abe… OL26176331W