High school sophomores John Conlon and Lorraine Jensen, both unhappy at home, spend their free time playing pranks on strangers. When one of their schemes brings them in contact with the elderly Mr. Pignati, who calls himself "the Pigman," the pair befriends the lonely man. Although the friendship enriches all of their lives, John and Lorraine ...
Zack, a paleontologist's son, knows plenty about dinosaurs, but he never expected to meet one in real life. The seemingly impossible happens when a baby dinosaur hatches, imprints with Zack, and thus comes to believe that the boy is his mother. Unfortunately for Zack, the raptor's real mother returns to claim her child...at any cost.
The true story of Paul Zindel's life and experience that gave him the material for his teenage novels, which include "The Undertaker's Gone Bananas", "Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My Eyeball", "The Girl Who Wanted a Boy" and "My Darling, My Hamburger".
This Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerns a family of eccentrics: Nanny, elderly and nearly vegetative; Beatrice, embittered and desperately trying to keep the house sane; Ruth, Beatrice's daughter who wants to be popular; and Tillie, the dreamer of the family, who wants to be a scientist.
Teenagers John and Lorriane are still feeling guilty for the part they played in the death of their elderly friend, Mr. Pignati. They forge a friendship with another elderly man, Gus, hoping that they can somehow make up for the pain they brought into Mr. Pignati's life. Their story is told in alternating chapters by John and Lorraine.
A fictional story about the creation of the atomic bomb as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Stephen, the son of one of the scientists working with Robert Oppenheimer. When Stephen learns of the potential dangers associated with the project his father is working on, he and a friend set out to learn all they can about the mysterious "gadget" his ...
Did classmate Timmy Warner plunge to his death over a 300-foot waterfall, or was that Timmy spotted recently, alive and well, at Venice Beach? P.C. and Mackenzie are determined to find out.
A killer beast--half-human, half-simian--is haunting the grounds around Stonehenge. Fifteen-year-old Jackson Cauley, visiting from America, works with his Aunt Sarah, an anthropologist hired by the British Army, to uncover the mystery of the beast before it can kill again.
Fifteen-year-old Luke is nicknamed "Loch" because he claims to have seen the Loch Ness Monster when he was five years old. His father, a journalist, brings Luke and his sister to Vermont to cover a story about some Loch Ness-type creatures living near a remote lake in Vermont. Accompanied by a greedy mogul, Luke has a terrifying trip during which ...
P.C. Hawke and his partner investigate the murder of the chief biologist at the Museum of Natural History. As they dig into the strange story, they discover a stolen world-famous necklace, an anthropologist trained in Indonesian medicine and hypnosis, and a fat, hairy tarantula named Aristotle.
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 ...
Fifteen-year-old Louis "Marsh" Mellow is a depressed loner who thinks the whole world hates him and thus hates the whole world right back. Things change for Marsh when he meets Edna Shinglebox, a fellow classmate who seems to feel just as misplaced as he does. Through their friendship, both Marsh and Edna gain a greater appreciation of themselves ...
No one will believe 15-year-old Bobby and his friend Lauri when they insist that Bobby's undertaker neighbor has murdered his wife--so it is up to them to solve the case themselves.
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.
Encouraged by Liz, her more outgoing friend, Maggie agrees to go on a date with Dennis, a friend of Liz's boyfriend, Sean. Both shy and awkward, Maggie and Dennis slowly stumble their way into a relationship. Meanwhile, Liz and Sean, misunderstood by their parents and looking for affection, begin having sex. As the four friends prepare to graduate ...
Seventeen-year-old PC McPhee gets caught up in a dangerous mystery involving a missing scuba diver, a hidden treasure, a seemingly deserted ship, a corrupt scientist, and a beautiful amnesiac girl named Maruul. Determined to solve the mystery, PC puts both his life and Maruul's in danger.
High school sophomores John Conlon and Lorraine Jensen, both unhappy at home, spend their free time playing pranks on strangers. When one of their schemes brings them in contact with the elderly Mr. Pignati, who calls himself "the Pigman," the pair befriends the lonely man. Although the friendship enriches all of their lives, John and Lorraine ...
Fifteen-year-old Louis "Marsh" Mellow is a depressed loner who thinks the whole world hates him and thus hates the whole world right back. Things change for Marsh when he meets Edna Shinglebox, a fellow classmate who seems to feel just as misplaced as he does. Through their friendship, both Marsh and Edna gain a greater appreciation of themselves ...
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 gone strikes again in their hotel.
High school students Henry and Zelda form a friendship with Miss Applebaum, their former science teacher who is dying of cancer. When the duo see that Miss Applebaum is being mistreated by both her doctor and her only relative, they become her protectors--determined to help her fulfill her last wishes.
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