Rise of ZomBert
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Could Bert really be a zombie cat? Two friends put their brains together to find out in a wry new mystery series. While helping her best friend, Danny, film his latest horror flick, Mellie discovers a scraggly cat behind a dumpster outside the YummCo Foods factory. Mellie names the stray Bert and hides him in her room, knowing her parents won’t let her keep him. But soon Bert has decapitated all her stuffed animals, and before long he is leaving the headless corpses of birds and mice as gifts for her. Danny is convinced the cat is a zombie, living on the brains of his victims. But is that what is really going on? Award-winning author Kara LaReau lets loose a fresh and sharply funny new mystery series, with an irresistible touch of the macabre. Fans of creepy stories and animal lovers alike will devour this fast-moving first episode in one gulp.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this spooky series launch, friends Mellie and Danny find a scraggly cat after Danny, an aspiring filmmaker scouting for a horror movie location, drags Mellie to the YummCo Foods factory's eerie grounds. Smitten with the skinny cat, which has escaped from a cage in the mysterious factory's lab, Mellie takes him home. There, he bites off her stuffed animals' heads and proudly flaunts his hunting prowess outdoors, leaving his prey's decapitated bodies for her to find. Intermittently taking over for Mellie as narrator, the feline named ZomBert for his brain-eating, "zombie-cat" behaviors has some of the novel's snappier lines; he's offended when Mellie buries his gift of a headless frog "without even tasting it!" LaReau (the Infamous Ratsos series) credibly weaves real-life strands into the plot Mellie resents her lifestyle blogger parents' preoccupation with their work, is anxious about presenting her school report, and tries to deflect a bully's taunts yet leaves enough threads hanging mid-air, largely surrounding cryptic goings-on at YummCo, that the story feels unfinished on its own. Energetic pictures by Andrews (The Dollar Kids) add to the story's mood. Ages 8 12.
