Zombies

Zombies – Level 2

 * The Dead series ** by Charlie Higson


 * Undead ** by Kirsty McKay

"Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain
 * Ashes ** by Ilsa Bick

tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry

eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through

the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those

who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses."

“A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the
 * The passage ** by Justin Cronin

monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop."


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The walking dead **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> tv tie-in by Robert Kirkman and Jay R. Bonansinga.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the year 2195 when society is technologically advanced but follows the social mores of Victorian England, recently orphaned Nora Dearly is left at the mercy of her domineering, social-climbing aunt, until she is nearly kidnapped by zombies and falls in with a group of mysterious, black-clad commandos
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dearly, Departed **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">. / Habel, Lia. (2011)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Summary: Josh is by far the best zombie Torcher around. At least, he is in his virtual-reality zombie-hunting game. Zombies haven't existed in the real world in more than 15 years, and the battle to defeat the devastating zombie epidemic is now the stuff of history lessons. Or so it seems. When Josh accepts a coveted invitation to join an underground gaming league in the dark, forgotten, tunnels of the city, he soon realises that hunting zombies is not all fun and games. Real blood is spilling, members of the team are disappearing, and the zombies in the game are acting strange. And then there's the matter of a mysterious drug called Z.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Z ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">/ Michael Thomas Ford. (2010)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Summary: An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">World War Z : an oral history of the Zombie War ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">/ Max Brooks. (2006)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">There is a trilogy by Mira Grant, the first book is called **Feed** and would certainly be suitable for level 2. Very clever way of looking at it.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Forest of Hands and Teeth **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by Carrie Ryan is a good example of the genre.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> **The Passage** by Justin Cronin isn’t post-apocalyptic zombies, but it is vampires and is absolutely excellent and if he broadens his theme to dealing with post-apocalyptic events then this, plus The Road by Cormac McCarthy would both fit.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Warm Bodies **<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by Isaac Marion.... post-apocalyptic zombie romance! (also an entertaining read)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">John dies at the end **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by David Wong, though apparently more demons..

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Also maybe the movie **Shaun of the Dead** - zombies infect London...


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rot and Ruin **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by Jonathan Maberry is one of the better zombie books I have read recently. It has a sequel, **Dust and decay**.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">A great collection of short stories just called Z**ombies, anthology of the undead**, (Also published as **The new dead: a zombie anthology**) / Golden, Christopher

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">A very funny zombie book. Loads of Star Trek references, but my 12-year-old liked it and he doesn't know much about Star Trek. It's adult fiction but no sex, only zombie violence.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Night of the Living Trekkies **<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by Kevin David Anderson. There's a book trailer on youtube.


 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This is not a test **<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by Courtney Summers, 2012. Blurb reads: Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes althought they each have much more reason to live than she has.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pride and prejudice and zombies <span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">/ Seth Grahame-Smith <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Enclave / Ann Aguirre <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Die for me / Amy Plum <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dawn of the Dead / George A Romero <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Zombies vs unicorns / Larbalestier, Justine; Black, Holly 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Boneshaker / Priest, Cherie 2009 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Dead / Gatward, David 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Death collector / Richards, Justin 2007 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Gil's all fright diner / Martinez, A. Lee 2006 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Handling the undead / Lindqvist, John Ajvide 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Reapers are the angels / Bell, Alden 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The sunlight slayings / Emerson, Kevin 2009 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Kiss of life / Daniel Waters <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Zombie apocalypse / Stephen Jones

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">(compiled 26/7/12 from School-lib list-serv) **