Raptor Summary
Paul Zindel

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Raptor Summary

Zindel is a master of exciting thrillers, and Raptor is among his most breathtaking.

The novel begins with a bang: dark caves, something moving around, the suspicion of a practical joke, then eggs, a giant head full of daggerlike teeth, panic, a fall. The novel barely pauses for breath—just long enough for Professor Norak to tell his son Zack to retrieve something. What that something is begins as a mystery for...

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