Zombies Are People, Too (Project Z Series #2)

by Tommy Greenwald

Overview

Arnold Z. Ombee is back in this wacky, page-turning sequel to A Zombie Ate My Homework!

The zombie secret is out!Sort of... Scientists at the lab that Arnold escaped from claim they've changed their tune. Instead of creating super zombie soldiers, they just want humans and zombies to be friends.Too good to be true? Probably. But Arnold agrees to help teach other zombies everything he's learned so far about being a real human boy. But there's something that seems strange about these new "zombies" (well, stranger than usual). Arnold knows it's up to him to unearth the secret before it eats him up inside. And outside. And everywhere else.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338305968
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	09/03/2019
Series:	Project Z Series , #2
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	308,367
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	660L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Tommy Greenwald is the author of many books for children, including the CrimeBiters! series, the Charlie Joe Jackson series, and the football novel Game Changer. This is his first series for zombies.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Zombies Are People, Too:"This sequel one-ups A Zombie Ate My Homework's (2019) infectiously hilarious tone with more over-the-top sequences, amplified by Bardin's cartoon spot illustrations." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-07-14
A zombie escapee is recaptured by the top-secret government agency that created him.

The smartest kid in the fifth grade, Arnold Z. Ombee (a zombie, obvi), uses his superintelligence to tutor a struggling classmate. Now Arnold is accepted—maybe even popular. But it's not just the cool kids who have their eye on him. Arnold catches an oddly familiar man spying on him and his human family, the Kinders. Soon after the encounter, the police inform Arnold's school that an "undocumented fugitive" is in attendance. The man—a Dr. Grassmere—convinces Arnold's family to let him take Arnold back to the Territory for a week of testing. But the "tests" serve a more sinister purpose: brainwashing Arnold and his "fellow afterlifes" and turning them into superstrong zombie warriors! Will Arnold snap out of it and remember his human life? Or is it already too late? This sequel one-ups A Zombie Ate My Homework's (2019) infectiously hilarious tone with more over-the-top sequences, amplified by Bardin's cartoon spot illustrations. Arnold alternates some first-person narration duties with classmate Evan, which adds an extra dose of character development to corpse-white Arnold's diverse cast of friends, such as revealing that Evan is a cancer survivor. The messages about acceptance and belonging are timely—although using the term "undocumented" to refer to a zombie does leave a bit of a bad taste.

A (mostly) tasty second helping. (Science fiction. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews