staten island (new york, n.y.)

John Sanders, Jr. reunites with his sister Julia to plan the funeral of their estranged father, and although Junior believed himself to be unaffected by his father's death, his return to his childhood home sparks a quest for vengeance that soon has him raging out of control against even the people who love him the most.

Lamin Michaels and his latest partner in crime, Zion, build one of New York's largest narcotics empires, until Lamin falls for a beautiful girl who makes him realize there is more to life than money.

Although she longs to be an all-American girl, Roxanne, a timid, Israeli-born thirteen-year-old who idolizes Wonder Woman, begins to see things differently when the supremely confident Liat, also from Israel, moves into the cursed house next door and they become friends.

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.

An account of Paul Zindel's teenage years on Staten Island, when his life was enriched by finding his own personal pigman, or mentor.

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.