Now seems like the perfect time to give up. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. Summary from Goodreads: It’s the end of the world. This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers (2012) Could there be life outside a world surrounded by so much death? And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future-between the one she loves and the one who loves her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Summary from Goodreads: In Mary’s world there are simple truths. The Forest of Hands and Teeth series, book 1.Īvailable as a book, CD audiobook, ebook, and digital audiobook. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (2009) He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human. Benny doesn’t want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice.

Summary from Goodreads: In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead – or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?Īvailable as a book, CD audiobook, Playaway, and ebook.

Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead – and hell along with them.

The place is New Victoria – a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. Summary from Goodreads: The year is 2195. Gone with the Respiration series, book 1.Īvailable as a book, CD audiobook, and ebook. If you like Dread Nation by Justina Ireland but you’re stuck on the wait list, here are some similar titles you can read.

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