Raptor Book

When Zack's dad, a paleontologist, is injured in a rock slide in the Utah mountains, he leaves behind a startling and earth-shattering discovery--a dinosaur who is far from extinct and out for revenge. Paul Zindel rarely fails to please and has won wide acclaim for much of his work, with titles such as My Darling, My Hamburger, The Pigman and Confessions of a Teenage Baboon riding as high in the popularity stakes now as they did when they were first published. In Raptor, Zindel continues to pack his customary punch a story that is at once touching and horrifying. In many ways, this is a deceptively simple, albeit fast-paced and, at times, stomach- churning adventure story, but Zindel also manages to cleverly raise issues about man's incomprehension of the bigger picture that leave the reader in little doubt that there is a moral to this tale. (Ages 10 to 13) --Susan HarrisonRead More