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LaReau, Kara

Rise of ZomBert

137 pp. | Candlewick | July, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5362-0106-2 $15.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Ryan Andrews. Nine-year-old friends Mellie and Danny rescue a bedraggled cat they find hiding in a trash barrel. They don't realize that he has just made his escape from a nefarious animal-testing laboratory run by the Trump-like CEO of YummCo., the largest employer in town. Mellie names the cat Bert, but Danny calls him ZomBert because of his habit of eating only the heads of his prey. Meanwhile, the lab is pulling out all the stops to find the missing cat. Why is he so important? Is Bert really a zombie? Can Mellie and Danny protect him? Readers will have to wait for the next series entry to find out; this one ends in a cliffhanger. Frequent digital sketches add suspense to a story with dead-on appeal for Halloween reading.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2020

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