William Sleator

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    October 2011
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Full Series List in Order

Pig

1 - Interstellar Pig (Jun-1984)
2 - Parasite Pig (Feb-2004)

Related Books

1 - The Spirit House (Nov-1991)
2 - Dangerous Wishes (Oct-1995)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Blackbriar

    Danny is intrigued by Blackbriar’s eerie, haunted atmosphere. And as he investigates the house’s past and its connection with the strange fires sometimes seen on nearby ancient burial mounds, Blackbriar and its previous occupants exert a strange ...

  • Run

  • House of Stairs

    Peter. Lola. Blossom. Abigail. Oliver. Five sixteen-year-old orphans. One by one, they are brought to a place that is unlike anything any of them has ever known. It's not a prison, not a hospital. It has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but en...

  • Among the Dolls

    A dark awakening . . . When her parents give her a gloomy old dollhouse for her birthday instead of the ten speed bike she's expecting, Vicky is disappointed. But she soon becomes fascinated by the small shadowy world and its inhabitants. The hours ...

  • Into the Dream

    "Paul has a recurring nightmare, about a small boy in awful danger. When he learns that his classmate Francine has it, too, the two of them join forces to solve the mystery and save the boy--before their bad dream becomes a terrifying reality.""Tight...

  • Interstellar Pig

    Pig - 1

    When three unusually attractive young adults rent the summer cottage next door, Barney's boring vacation at the beach seemingly takes a turn for the better. However, after the neighbors unwittingly reveal their extraterrestrial identities, the board ...

  • Singularity

    It started as a two-week vacation, and turned into a terrifying journey out of time. Barry and Harry Krasner are identical twins, but that's where the resemblance stops. Barry's more athletic, more aggressive -- and he's the one who suggests that th...

  • The Boy Who Reversed Himself

    Laura's suspicion that the strange boy who moved in next door has the power to reverse himself leads her on a frightening journey into the bizarre world of the fourth dimension, from which there may be no escape...

  • The Duplicate

    When David finds a mysterious machine that can copy living things, he thinks his problems are over. By duplicating himself, he can visit his grandmother and keep his date with Angela. While the other David is in school, the real one can spend the day...



  • Strange Attractors

  • Fingers

    Eighteen-year-old Sam has always been jealous of his younger brother, Humphrey, the famous "wonder child" pianist. But now that Humphrey is fifteen, the one-time child prodigy isn't able to get any more bookings. Sam's mother refuses to accept that H...

  • The Green Futures of Tycho

    When eleven-year-old Tycho discovers that the mysterious egg-shaped object he dug up in his garden is a time travel device, he can't resist using his newfound power. Soon he is jumping back and forth in time, mostly to play tricks on his bossy older ...

  • The Spirit House

    Related Books - 1

    A foreign exchange student comes to live with Julie’s family for a year -- setting off a frightening chain of events   Julie isn’t thrilled about her parents’ decision to sponsor a foreign exchange student from Thailand. Not only is the st...

  • Oddballs

    In a comic tour de force, William Sleator introduces us to one of the most unforgettable families ever -- his own. Meet Bill, the mastermind oldest brother who runs the show; Vicky, the only sister, who loves to dye herself and her friends purple wi...

  • Others See Us

    After Jared accidentally plunges into a polluted swamp, he gains the ability to read minds . . . and discovers dangerous secrets about his family The first thing Jared does every summer when he and his family arrive at their cotta...

  • Dangerous Wishes

    Related Books - 2

    To end the bad luck that fifteen-year-old Dom and his parents have been experiencing since their arrival in Thailand, Dom and his new friend Lek search for a jade carving that must be returned to its shrine to appease an angry Thai spirit...

  • The Night the Heads Came

    Leo and Tim are abducted by aliens -- and find themselves in the middle of an intergalactic feud Leo is driving his best friend, Tim, to the station to catch the midnight train to New York City, where Tim hopes to sell his science fiction drawings to...

  • The Beasties

    Although he didn't believe the rumors about the monstrous creatures who live in the woods, Doug and his sister unfortunately discover that they are true and so must find a way to put the Beastie family's evil plot to an end before there are even more...

  • The Boxes

    How could it hurt to take just one peek? When Uncle Marco goes on one of his mysterious trips, he leaves Annie in charge of two exotic, sealed boxes on one condition: she must not open either one while he is away. But of course she is tempted . ....



  • Rewind

    When Peter is hit by a car, he is given the ultimate do-over: go back to any point in time before that fateful moment, and alter the events leading up to his death. If he fails, he will die again--this time, for good. Now Peter's racing against time ...

  • Boltzmon!

    When the boltzman comes to deliver his wish for power, young Chris gets much more than he expected and soon his life is turned inside out in this suspenseful science fiction thriller for young readers....

  • Marco's Millions

    A door to another world When Marco's fragile little sister, Lilly, tells him about the strange lights in the basement, he thinks she's imagining things. But Marco is curious, and it isn't long before he investigates and finds a passage into a str...

  • Parasite Pig

    Pig - 2

    Barney's stuck at a boring after-school job, earning money to repay his parents after their beach house is destroyed in a battle with aliens.  Of course, they don't believe that aliens did the damage.  No one, in fact, realizes that sixteen-year-ol...

  • The Boy Who Couldn't Die

    When his best friend is killed in a plane crash, Ken makes a decision: He will never die. He finds a woman who claims she can make him invulnerable to pain and death for the unbelievably cheap price of fifty dollars. And her strange ritual works. Ken...

  • The Last Universe

    Sleator is at his sci-fi best with this quantum thriller, now available in paperbackIn this gothic, sci-fi thriller from a master storyteller, Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, discover a mysterious maze in the vast gardens of their isola...

  • Hell Phone

    A modern murder story with a devilish twistMaster of horror William Sleator has created another creepy, heart-pumping classic in Hell Phone. Nick wants a cell phone so he can talk to his girlfriend, Jen, after school, and the used phone he buys seems...

  • Test

    Now in paperback! Pass, and have it made. Fail, and suffer the consequences. A master of teen thrillers tests readers’ courage in an edge-of-your-seat novel that echoes the fears of exam-takers everywhere. Ann, a teenage girl living in th...

  • The Phantom Limb

    Isaac is the new kid in town. His mother, Vera, is in the hospital with a mysterious illness, and the only person left to care for Isaac is his distant grandfather. Friendless and often alone, Isaac loses himself in his collection of optical illusion...

Award-Winning Books by William Sleator

The Boxes
2001 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 9-12
Rewind
2002 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 10-12


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Sleator has published 28 books.

William Sleator does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Phantom Limb, was published in October 2011.

The first book by William Sleator, Blackbriar, was published in January 1972.

Yes. William Sleator has 2 series.
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