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Loch

by Paul Zindel

Published 1 October 1994

Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but soon discover that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.

Raptor

by Paul Zindel

Published 18 March 1999

Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.

The Doom Stone

by Paul Zindel

Published 13 October 1995

When fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge.

Reef of Death

by Paul Zindel

Published 30 April 1998

While helping a beautiful Aboriginal girl search for her people's missing treasure near the Great Barrier Reef, seventeen-year-old PC finds himself fighting an evil scientist and a deadly underwater monster.

Night of the Bat

by Paul Zindel

Published 1 August 2001

Teenage Jake joins his father on an expedition to study bats in the Brazilian rain forest and finds the project menaced by a giant brain-eating bat.

Rats

by Paul Zindel

Published 1 November 1974

"Thick brown bodies, some as large as a foot, slithered like fish beneath the surface of a muddy pond..."

Sarah McGraw lives with her father and younger brother on the edge of town, beside a huge garbage dump. Her father helps manage the dump, but it's a job that's growing out of control. As the piles of refuse grow, the rats that frequent the dump are also growing - and mutating. Turning against humans, they begin to venture outside of the dump, invading the neighbouring houses through the drains, up into toilets and jacuzzis, harassing the neighbourhood and massing for violent and often fatal attacks on the inhabitants. When one of the dump workers is eaten alive by rats, Sarah's dad is called in to work urgently to try and control the crisis - leaving Sarah and her little brother alone - and at the mercy of the rats...