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"Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Hyperion (August 1, 2004) Language: English ISBN: 0786851511 Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches Grade 7-10 While driving past Stonehenge on his way to visit his anthropologist aunt, Jackson, 15, s"
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Paul Zindel (1936-2003) was born and raised on Staten Island in New York. After teaching high school science for several years, he decided to pursue a career as a playwright. His first play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Shortly thereafter, he wrote his first novel for young adults, The Pigman, which has gone on to sell millions of copies. Mr. Zindel wrote more than fifty books over the course of his life, including the popular My Darling, My Hamburger; The Pigman’s Legacy, a sequel to The Pigman; and the autobiographical The Pigman and Me.
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Gr. 6^-10. Young adult readers who complain about the lack of gore and suspense in YA fiction will change their minds after reading Zindel's latest foray into the horror genre. Although his Loch (1994) did have several scary scenes, the Loch Ness monsterlike creatures were essentially peaceful and were just protecting themselves when they crunched people. Here, the slimy creature stalking the moors around Stonehenge, mutilating people, is truly evil as well as bloodthirsty and physically repellent. Fifteen-year-old Jackson is thrilled to be visiting his aunt Sarah at her latest archaeological dig near Stonehenge. But before he even arrives at the site, he witnesses a brutal attack on a young man. Later that night, his aunt is attacked by the creature, and its "saliva" invades her body, creating a bizarre linkage that lets the creature control her mind and gain her knowledge. Teaming up with Alma, a pretty, young girl who lives near the site, Jackson has several terrible encounters with the monster, solves the riddle of the doom stone that controls the creature, and discovers a clan of subterranean-dwelling creatures that are somehow linked to the monster. But that's another story. Even reluctant readers won't be able to put this one down. Chris Sherman
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- PublisherThe Bodley Head
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0370322819
- ISBN 13 9780370322810
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bodley Head 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket ''A deadly predator is roaming Salisbury Plain and Jackson Cawley, a fifteen year old American, is abruptly plunged into the hunt to kill it before it kills again. With the help o a local girl, Alma, Jackson endeavours to discover the lair of the beast. But to do so, they must first unravel the secret of its power and the connection it has to the vast and mysterious Stonehenge. . ''. Book. Seller Inventory # 34077
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