Paul Zindel
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The year Paul Zindel and his family moved to Travis, New York was the most important time of his whole life. It was the year he met Nonno Frankie Vivona, the mischievous grandfather who became his pigman. If you are like Paul, you probably won't recognize your pigman when he first appears. But what you do when you meet him will be a matter of life and death, because a pigman is the only one in the world who can teach you the secret of life.
2) Rats
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When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.
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Several convicts from a high-security prison escape the inhumane treatment of Chief Guard Ranken and break out into the icy Alaskan wilderness. The cons flee onto a departing freight train only to find themselves prisoners on a speeding train that is hurtling toward certain derailment, its conductor dead of a sudden heart attack.
4) Mame
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She'll coax the blues right out of your heart. Madcap Auntie Mame is suddenly her nephew's guardian in this sparkling adaptation of the Broadway hit.