In Interstellar Pig (1984), perhaps Sleator's most popular novel, a boy with neglectful parents is spending a boring summer at the family's beach house when he becomes involved with a trio of eccentric and intensely compelling neighbours who love to play the board game of the book's title. The eponymous protagonist borrows his name from Sleator's younger brother with its use of sibling rivalry as a plot device, it is an example of the autobiographical thread that runs through much of the author's fiction.
Sleator's The Green Futures of Tycho (1981) plays with time-travel paradoxes in a startling and creative way, allowing a boy to travel into the future and meet, and disapprove of, himself as an adult. The Young Adult Library Services Association named House of Stairs as one of its 100 best books for young adults. Eventually they discover that they are part of a secret government psychological conditioning program and that, rather than being expected to work together, they are being trained to treat each other with cruelty.
House of Stairs (1974), one of the first great dystopian novels for young adults, concerns a group of deeply troubled orphans who awake to find themselves imprisoned in a huge structure based on the famous MC Escher print of the same name, which consists of nothing but staircases that they must constantly climb up and down in search of food. The plot for Sleator's House of Stairs was based on an MC Escher print
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