Raptor - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786812249 ISBN 13: 9780786812240

Synopsis

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

About this title

Review

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 Harrison

Review

Zindel is a master at creating and sustaining a mood, and Raptor is no exception. (SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL)

Paul Zinde's graphic stories Raptor and Bats had boys of 10 and over queing to order copies. Although revolting gory, they are well written and extremely fast moving. (Publishing News, April 2001)

Not for the fainthearted, Zindel has found a formula that will entice the teen reader. (Children's Books in Ireland, Spring 2001)

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786812249
• ISBN 13: 9780786812240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170