Zombie season

First Title Value for Searching:

Zombie season

Personal Author:

Weinberger, Justin

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 22 cm.

Genre:

Zombie fiction.

Horror fiction.

Summary:

Summer is zombie season in California and there are some kids who do not evacuate: Joule searches for her missing father, Regina worries about the secrecy surrounding the new anti-zombie technology her parents are developing, and Oliver is trying to convince the grownups that the zombies are becoming stronger.

Subject Term:

Zombies -- Juvenile fiction.

Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction

Survival -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction

Audience/Lexile:

Ages 8-12.

Grades 4-6.

750 L

Publication Info:

New York : Scholastic Press, 2023.

Subject:

Zombies -- Juvenile fiction.

Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction

Survival -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction

Zombie fiction.

Horror fiction.

Zombis

Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.

Survival skills

SAILS ISBN:

9781338881714

Available:

Library	Shelf Number	Shelf Location	Status
Searching... Plainville Public Library	J WEI	CHILDREN FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Carver Public Library	J FIC WEI	CHILDREN FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Dighton Middle School	F WEI	FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Mansfield Public Library	J FIC WEINBERGER	CHILDREN FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Pembroke Public Library	XX(2957206.8)	Being acquired by the library	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Seekonk - Aitken School	FIC WEI	FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Seekonk Public Library	JFIC WEINBERGER	CHILDREN FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Somerset Public Library	Y WEINBERGER JUSTIN	CHILDREN FICTION	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

The next innovation in the book and gaming space is here: Zombie Season! Read the book. Play the game. Fight the undead.

You know the protocol. You've completed countless drills. Yet nothing can truly prepare you for what's coming. No one is ever ready for zombie season . . .

Joule refuses to evacuate with her mom. She can't leave town while her dad's still missing. He's out there, somewhere, and Joule is going to find him. But what if he's not just lost? What if he's become what she most fears?

Regina is proud of her scientist parents, especially now that they're working on a weapon to keep the zombies at bay. But when she discovers a dark underside to their new technology, she must decide what matters most: her family's reputation... or saving lives.

Oliver is sick of the drills. What's the point in pretending you can run and hide when it's clear the zombies are growing faster and stronger than ever? But when the adults refuse to accept this scary truth, Oliver must find a way to sound the alarm: this year's zombie season is very, very different. Something has changed, and time is running out to stop it...

Join the fight by going on your own zombie-hunting missions online!

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Resourceful kids battle hordes of the walking dead. Residents of several Northern California counties are being advised to evacuate and "flee to safety" in the wake of a zombie epidemic. Lucy Santifer and her family just make it to their car when they are attacked and killed. Nearby, Lucy's best friend, 12-year-old Joule Artis, climbs into her treehouse, the better to seek her missing father. Elsewhere, 11-year-old Oliver Wachs is holed up in the Redwood Zombie Brigade Headquarters, stocked with weaponry and populated by dedicated zombiefighters. And Regina, 12, is haunted by her narrow zombie escapes even as her mother, Dr. Celeste Herrera, unveils Project Coloma, an ingenious system that uses a zombie treadmill situated in an abandoned gold mine to create much-needed energy for the region. Weinberger's monster thriller is long on suspense, with several close calls but no graphic violence. The action pings briskly among the three young protagonists, and the punchy prose is suitably pitched to a preteen readership. The plot thickens with the forecast of a Rogue Wave of zombies headed to town. The trio eventually joins forces, promising further fights for freedom. If this horror thrill ride makes readers want to join the zombiefighters, note that there is a video game tie-in. Play at your own risk. Oliver reads white, Regina is cued Latina, and Joule is minimally described and racially ambiguous. Nonstop, action-packed, episodic exploits against the voracious undead. (link to play the online game) (Adventure. 9-12) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.