📖Recommend for Grades 9 and up📖
by Justina Ireland
It’s the American Civil War and the
North and South are fighting each other, but then they face a new common enemy
when the dead start to rise. It’s years later and African-Americans are trained
in special schools to fight the dead. Jane is among those being trained at Miss
Preston’s School for Combat in Baltimore. When families start to go missing,
Jane tries to find one in particular but gets caught snooping around. Her
punishment is to be sent out West where a new town is being formed, but things there aren’t as perfect as the residents are being lead to believe.
Fans of The Walking Dead should give
this a try as the format is similar in the dead being a big part of the story,
but it not being a complete zombie story. Jane is a likable character whom readers
will root for. Unfortunately, the story is slow to start but picks up as she
heads out West. The ending though will have readers itching for the sequel
which is expected to be out sometime next year.
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