Dead City

James Ponti

• Publisher: Aladdin
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781442441309
• eBook ISBN: 9781442441286

A tween takes on undead New Yorkers in this paranormal action-adventure that “breathes new life into the zombie genre” (Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games).

Most kids have enough to deal with between school, homework, extracurricular activities, and friends, but Molly Bigelow isn’t your typical tween. By day, Molly attends MIST—the Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology—but it’s what she’s learning outside of school that sets her apart from her classmates. Molly is a zombie hunter, just like her mother.

This, however, is news to Molly. Now she must come to terms with not only the idea that zombies exist, but also that they’re everywhere, and it’s her job to help police them and keep the peace. Sure, she’d like to be a regular kid, but “regular” just isn’t possible when it turns out the most revered (or feared, depending on your perspective) zombie hunter in the history of New York City is your mother. It seems Molly’s got some legendary footsteps to follow…

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: You’re Probably Wondering Why There’s a Dead Body in the Bathroom . . .
• Chapter 1: That Weird Bigelow Girl
• Chapter 2: Popsicles and Vanilla
• Chapter 3: The Reason I Hate Swans
• Chapter 4: Why I Floss on a Daily Basis
• Chapter 5: I’d Better Get Used to Creepy Guys Who Want to Kill Me
• Chapter 6: Things You Should Never Touch in a Subway Tunnel and Other Lessons
• Chapter 7: Killing Time
• Chapter 8: If You’ve Ever Wanted to Know a Good Place to Meet Zombies . . .
• Chapter 9: The City That Really Never Sleeps
• Chapter 10: It’s Time to Get My Zeke On
• Chapter 11: I Get Called to the Principal’s Office . . . and It’s a Good Thing
• Chapter 12: How to Set a Trap
• Chapter 13: I Meet the One and Only Cornelius Blackwell
• Chapter 14: Careful What You Wish For
• Chapter 15: Big Zombies, Little Women
• Chapter 16: Geek Mythology
• Chapter 17: Book of Secrets
• Chapter 18: Party Crasher
• Chapter 19: The Wildest Ride in Manhattan
• Chapter 20: I Create a Fake Identity
• Chapter 21: The Mayor of Dead City
• Chapter 22: Consequences
• Chapter 23: You’re Probably (Still) Wondering Why There’s a Dead Body in the Bathroom
• Chapter 24: Reckoning
• About James Ponti
• Copyright