Paul Zindel

John and Lorraine are still haunted by the memory of the Pigman when they come face to face with a graybeard in the Pigman's abandoned house and, perhaps, a chance to prove themselves and take a big step towards maturity. Reprint.

The Pigman's Legacy

Join the millions of readers who have discovered The Pigman, the beloved bestselling young adult classic from Paul Zindel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. The Pigman is the perfect read for fans of modern classics like The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. When high school sophomores John and Lorraine made a prank phone call to an elderly stranger named Angelo Pignati, what starts as a practical joke quickly turns into a friendship that changes all of their lives forever. But when their friendship ends in tragedy, the only way for John and Lorraine to find peace is to write down their friend's story—the true story of the Pigman. “Headline news…remarkable…Zindel has written a story that will not be denied.” —Publishers Weekly “An intensely moving story of believably alienated young people.” —School Library Journal

The Pigman

This is the sequel to The Pigman, one of the bestselling young adult books of all time. John and Lorraine happen to be passing by the Pigman’s abandoned house when they receive the shock of their lives: someone or something is watching them from the upstairs window. Convinced this is a sign from beyond the grave, John and Lorraine decide they have been given a chance to make up for what happened to the Pigman. Can they make things right once and for all?

The Pigman's Legacy (Sequel to The Pigman)

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.

Night of the bat

The Undertaker's Gone Bananas

Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.

Raptor

Jackson is always psyched to visit his aunt Sarah when she's working on an anthropological dig. This time she's in England, at Stonehenge, and Jackson can't wait to see the massive and mysterious stone formations in person. But then he witnesses a vicious attack on a young man, and another on his beloved aunt Sarah. A savage beast no one has ever seen before is on the prowl. Now it's up to Jackson and his new friend, Alma, a gravedigger's daughter, to stop the beast. All the clues lead back to Stonehenge, where he and Alma must risk their lives to solve the mystery of the monster stalking the countryside-before it's too late. "Even reluctant readers won't be able to put this one down."-Booklist

The Doom Stone

Mrs. Wilmont's class goes to the zoo but inter-class rivalries create problems at the zoo.

Fifth Grade Safari

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.

A Novel

David & Della

When a Darkness Falls

Zindel's successful and moving follow-up to The Pigman picks up four months later, as John and Lorraine are determined to rectify their past mistakes by helping a new friend any way they can.

Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Zindel's brilliant Broadway success. This biting, touching and often wildly funny play probes deeply into the tortured relationship of three sisters whose lives have reached a point of crisis. "In Paul Zindel we seem to have that rarity—a playwright who can write intelligent, sensitive, entertaining plays for a wide public." —Newsweek. "It is funny and fierce and, well, absolutely extraordinary." —Boston Globe. "...he has created three parts that most actresses would trade their souls to play." —Hollywood Reporter. The Story: Their father having deserted them in their childhood, the three Reardon sisters have grown up in a house of women, dominated by their mother, who is only recently dead. But time has erased the tender closeness of girlhood; one sister has married and cut herself off; another has begun to drink more than she should; and the third, after a scandalous incident at the school where she teaches, is on the brink of madness. When the married sister comes to dinner to press the need for committing her sibling to an institution, the simmering resentments of many years burst alive and are exacerbated by the intrusion of a well-meaning but boorish neighbor couple, whose unexpected arrival impels the action towards its shattering conclusion—in which all the pathos, humor and searing honesty of the play combine with overwhelming effect.

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel comes this powerful and deeply moving study of the destructive effects of lovelessness and loneliness on a sensitive adolescent. Presented to critical and popular acclaim by New York's highly regarded Circle Repertory Company, the play probes unerringly into the unsettled lives of its characters and finds the compassion and simple humanity which circumstances have driven within them. "AMULETS becomes gripping and disturbing...the characters are invariably fascinating..." —NY Times. "...absorbing and vividly written study of mid-50s lower-middle-class alienation and emotional hunger...it's the work of a true playwright." —Variety. "This is the play Williams or Inge would have written if they had been born 30 years later and avoided the sexual repression of their times." —BackStage. Drama Full Length 9 men, 3 women (of the 9 men several roles can be doubled): 12 total Interior

Amulets Against the Dragon Forces

The Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch plans a fright party sure to scare the socks off even their archenemies.

Fright Party

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" comes a biting, funny and revealing study of a group of middle-class matrons who meet for bridge, and are quickly drawn into more dramatic, and disturbing, matters. Comedy/Drama One Act 6 women: 6 total Interior

The Ladies Should be in Bed

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

I Never Loved Your Mind

A little boy tells of his special relationship with his mother.

I Love My Mother

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.

The Pigman and Me

Two alienated teenagers learn to cope with their personal problems by being honest with each other.

Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!

Crescent Dragonwagon

A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.

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