I have become a fan of the zombie genre and "The Walking Dead" TV show on AMC is still a few weeks off. V. Zeto, author of The Return Man (an awesome novel of zombie angst) doesn’t have anything new coming out. The “World War Z” movie isn’t coming out until this summer. So what to do, what to do…I find I need something to chomp on and I found it in the YA section!
The YA section contains books that, according to the ALA
definition, are written for readers between the ages of 12 and 18, but they are
finding that books are marketed for as low as 10 and as high as 25. I
read from this section myself and often see other adults doing the same.
The book that caught my attention had a striking
cover. It depicts the bottom half of a girl in a cheerleader outfit
holding a bloody, dripping axe and the book is entitled Undead by Kirsty
McKay. The day of the school trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a
roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone,
that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with Rebel-without-a-clue
Smitty. Then hours pass. Snow piles up. The sun goes down. Bobby and Smitty start to flirt. Start to stress. Till finally they see the other kids stumbling back. But they’ve changed and not in a good way. Straight up, they’re zombies! So the wheels of the bus better go round and round fast, because that’s the only thing keeping Bobby and Smitty from becoming their classmates’ next meal. It’s kill or be killed in these hunger games. Heads are gonna roll, and homework is most definitely gonna be late.
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