Chris Lynch

Thirteen-year-old Earl Pryor is much too big for his age, and much too powerful for the anger that rages within him when classmates tease him, the girl he likes disappoints him, or his parents' problems get too real.

Daniel simply wants to spend one last summer with his grandfather, Da, before his move to college and Da's dementia pull them apart, but when Da starts to let things slip about a secret life, Daniel must protect him from old "friends" who intend to make sure Da stays quiet.

"Zane and his animal comrades have foiled Dr. Gristle's terrible plots twice--the doctor still can't talk to animals, and he can't get at the heart of what makes them wild. Zane, however, can talk to them. And what they're telling him is very disturbing. Zane keeps getting in Dr. Gristle's way, though--and now he's being sent as far out of the way as he can get, to a strange 'camp' in the middle of nowhere...In order to get home, Zane must figure...