Paul Zindel

John Conlan is nicknamed “The Bathroom Bomber” after setting off firecrackers in the boys’ bathroom 23 times without ever getting caught....

High school sleuths P.C. Hawke and Mackenzie Riggs quickly regret their decision to take a killer calculus class at Columbia University. Not only is the math work more than anything they’ve ever tried before, but their professor loves to ridicule anyone having trouble keeping up—which is...

Loch and his sister are with their father on a scientific expedition when suddenly a hideous water beast explodes out of the water....

A trip to the French Riviera should be a nice vacation for high school super-sleuth P.C. Hawke and his best friend Mackenzie. With no schoolwork and little interference from Mac’s busy dad, the two teens have all the time they could want to hang out at the beach and watch the rich and famous...

People say New York City is a jungle. Still, P.C. Hawke is a little surprised when his best friend, Mackenzie, invites him to tag along with her police coroner mother to examine a scientist who was mauled by jaguars at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park. But when the two teenage sleuths learn...

P.C. Hawke and his partner Mackenzie are two cool, teenaged sleuths. In The Scream Museum, they find themselves on their toughest case yet. P.C. and Mackenzie’s friend, Tom the janitor, has been accused of murdering the head biologist at New York City’s Museum of Natural History. But they...

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....

Jackson is always eager to visit his aunt Sarah at her anthropological digs....

Out in the mountains, Zack and his friend, Uta, discover what they think is a large fossilized dinosaur egg.....

When mutant rats escape from a Staten Island garbag e dump and terrorize the town’s citizens, it’s up to Sarah and her younger brother, Michael, to stop them from taking over New York City.....

The year Paul Zindel, his sister, Betty, and their mother lived in the town of Travis, Staten Island, New York, was the most important time of his teenage life....

Despite what some kids at their school say, there’s really nothing weird about P.C. Hawke and his friend Mackenzie Riggs. Sure, it’s sort of true that wherever they go people start getting killed right and left, but it’s not their fault. They just happen to be very observant—okay...