Paul Zindel
1) The pigman
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.
3) Raptor
Author
Series
Description
Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.
4) The gadget
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
10) Rats
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
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.
12) To take a Dare
Author
Pub. Date
1984, c1982
Description
A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.