Paul Zindel

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1968
  • Latest Book:
    January 2013
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Full Series List in Order

P.C. Hawke Mysteries

1 - The Scream Museum (Sep-2001)
2 - The Surfing Corpse (Jul-2001)
3 - The E-Mail Murders (Sep-2001)
4 - The Lethal Gorilla (Nov-2001)
5 - The Square Root of Murder (Jan-2002)
6 - Death On The Amazon (Mar-2002)
7 - The Gourmet Zombie (Jul-2002)
8 - The Phantom of 86th Street (Oct-2002)

The Pigman

The Pigman (Oct-1968)
The Pigman's Legacy (1980)
The Pigman & Me (May-1993)

Zone Unknown

1 - Loch (Oct-1994)
2 - The Doom Stone (Oct-1995)
3 - Raptor (Oct-1998)
4 - Rats (Aug-1999)
5 - Reef of Death (Apr-1998)
6 - Night of the Bat (Aug-2001)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • The Pigman

    The Pigman

    "Some very strange things have happened to us during the last months, and we feel we should write them down while they're fresh in minds. It's got to be written down now before John and I mature and repress the whole thing. . . . John has compassion ...

  • My Darling, My Hamburger

    Four friends, Two couples, One year that will change their lives. Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing...

  • I Never Loved Your Mind

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  • I love my mother

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  • The Pigman's Legacy

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    The Pigman

    Discover the sequel to Paul Zindel’s groundbreaking bestselling young adult novel, The Pigman, which Publishers Weekly called “remarkable…a story that will not be denied.”

    The Pigman and The Pigman’s Legacy are ...

  • The Girl Who Wanted a Boy

  • Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!

  • To Take a Dare

  • When a Darkness Falls

    Someone is killing women in the high-priced canyons around Los Angeles. Someone who strikes ruthlessly, randomly, leaving his red badge of rage on his victims’ bodies…For Jack and Marjorie Krenner and their two small children, life in t...



  • Confessions of a Teenage Baboon

  • The Undertaker's Gone Bananas

    Bobby Perkins knew the minute he saw Mr. Hulka, his sinister new neighbor, that the man was evil. Then one morning, while spying on the man, who works as an undertaker, Bobby thinks he witnesses a violent crime. Bobby is determined to expose Mr. Hul...

  • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds

    Beatrice was a mother . . . and the embittered ringmaster of the circus Hunsdorfer featuring three generations of crazy ladies living under the sloppiest big top on earth. Nanny was no problem. She sat and stared and stayed silent as a venerable ...

  • Star for Latecomers

    Brooke, a sixteen-year-old dancer, prefers a normal public school to the special school for aspiring celebrities that she attends, but, when illness strikes her family, she determines to become a star to fulfill her mother's most cherished dream....

  • The Girl Who Wanted

  • The Pigman & Me

    The Pigman

    Eight hundred and fifty-three horrifying things had happened to me by the time I was a teenager. That was when I met my Pigman, whose real name was Nonno Frankie. The year Paul Zindel, his sister, Betty, and their mother lived in the town of Travis, ...

  • Attack of the Killer Fishsticks

  • Fright Party

    When Mrs. Wilmont's fifth-grade class visit a big city zoo, they discover that the long-standing feud between the Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch and their rivals, the Nasty Blobs, does not stop at the zoo gates....

  • David and Della

    Meet teenage playwright David Mahooley. Ever since his ex-girlfriend tried to skewer herself on the school flagpole, he can't bring himself to write a word. Enter fast-talking Della Jones, an actress and writing coach with a gym bag full of massage o...

  • Fifth Grade Safari

    When Mrs. Wilmont's fifth grade class visits a big city zoo, they discover that the long-standing feud between the Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch and their rivals, the Nasty Blobs, does not stop at the zoo gates...



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  • Loch

    Zone Unknown - 1

    Blip...blip...blip... Sonar screens stalk the astonishing, massive water creatures that have been sighted in a remote Vermont lake. Fifteen-year-old Loch Perkins is aboard the Revelation, a high-tech search yacht, when the first creature explodes f...

  • The Doom Stone

    Zone Unknown - 2

    IT’S NOT HUMAN--AND IT'S AFTER HIM! Jackson is always eager to visit his aunt Sarah at her anthropological digs. This time she's in England, at Stonehenge, and Jackson's particularly, excited to see the massive and mysterious stone formations in pe...

  • Reef of Death

    Zone Unknown - 5

    PLUNGE IN... Seventeen-year-old P.C. McPhee is in Australia to help his uncle solve a mystery involving buried treasure, a beautiful Aboriginal girl, and a horrifying sea creature. P.C. quickly realizes that they're not the only ones looking for the ...

  • Raptor

    Zone Unknown - 3

    Out in the mountains, Zack discovers a fossilised dinosaur egg. A once in a lifetime discovery - this could make a fortune! Zack takes it home to keep it safe. Only the egg isn't fossilised - it's hatching ...And there's an angry mother dinosaur on t...

  • Rats

    Zone Unknown - 4

    Sarah McGraw lives with her father and brother on the edge of town, beside a garbage dump. Her father manages the dump, but it's a job that's growing out of control, and the rats at the dump are mutating and attacking the workers. Sarah's father need...

  • Love and Centipedes

    in Places I Never Meant to Be

    "What effect does [the climate of censorship] have on a writer?....It's chilling. It's easy to become discouraged, to second-guess everything you write. There seemed to be no one to stand up to the censors....so I began to speak out about my experie...

  • The Gadget

    Near the end of World War II, scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are working on a project that will alter the fate of the world -- the atomic bomb. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Orr is living on a top-secret military base with his father, one of the p...

  • The Surfing Corpse

    P.C. Hawke Mysteries - 2

    On a class trip, P.C. and Mackenzie are horrified like the rest of their classmates when Timmy Warner plunges to his death, but Mrs. Warner's strange behavior sends them searching for clues in Los Angeles to discover the truth....

  • Night of the Bat

    Zone Unknown - 6

    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 ...



  • The E-Mail Murders

    P.C. Hawke Mysteries - 3

    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 retired suddenly strikes again...in their hotel!...

  • The Scream Museum

    P.C. Hawke Mysteries - 1

    P.C. Hawke and his partner-in-sleuthing, Mackenzie Riggs, are shocked to learn that their friend, Tom, a custodian, is accused of murdering the chief biologist at the Museum of Natural History. As P.C. and Mackenzie dig deeper into the strange story,...

  • The Lethal Gorilla

    P.C. Hawke Mysteries - 4

    A scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park turns up dead, and P.C. and Mackenzie are sure it's no accident. There's only one way to get a lethal dose of gorilla blood into an unsuspecting human--on purpose....

  • The Square Root of Murder

    P.C. Hawke Mysteries - 5

    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 wa...

  • Death On The Amazon

    P.C. Hawke Mysteries - 6

    P.C.'s anthropologist dad invites P.C. and Mac along for a holiday boat trip down the Amazon, but Mr. Hawke's dream trip turns into a nightmare for everyone when they realize they're trapped on board a little steamer with a big killer......

  • The Gourmet Zombie

    P.C. Hawke Mysteries - 7

    The most famous chefs in New York are dropping like flies--each seeming to die accidentally. But P.C. and Mac notice a bizarre connection: every one has met his maker courtesy of his signature dish! Who is killing the cooks of Gotham, and, whats more...

  • The Phantom of 86th Street

    P.C. Hawke Mysteries - 8

    Serena hasn't been herself lately. She has been having sudden lapses of memory and acting like a completely different person -- one she doesn't like very much. To add to her confusion, she knows that someone has been following her. It all started the...

  • The Amazing and Death-defying Diary of Eugene Dingman

    Fifteen-year-old Eugene Dingman records in his personal diary his summer spent as a waiter in a hotel in the Adirondacks, learning to cope with rejection from the girl he has a crush on as well as from his own father....

  • Harry and Hortense at Hormone High

    Harry and Hortense, reporters for the school newspaper, must cope with the dynamic, mesmerizing Jason Rohr, who claims to be the incarnation of the Greek demigod Icarus and who has chosen them to convey his prophecies...

  • A Begonia for Miss Applebaum



Award-Winning Books by Paul Zindel

The Pigman
2010 Benjamin Franklin Award -- Audio-Children's


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Paul Zindel has published 39 books.

Paul Zindel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Begonia for Miss Applebaum, was published in January 2013.

The first book by Paul Zindel, The Pigman, was published in October 1968.

Yes. Paul Zindel has 3 series.
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