Zombie Mommy (Pals in Peril Tales)

by M.T. Anderson

Hardcover, 2011

Status

Available

Call number

326

Publication

Beach Lane Books (2011), Hardcover, 224 pages

Description

Home from their latest Delaware crime-stopping adventures, Lily Gefelty and her friends Katie, Jasper, and Drgnan Pghlik face killer tarantulas and teenaged vampires when they try to rescue Lily's mother, who has been possessed by a menacing zombie that wants to take over the world.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Stevil2001

This is more like it-- Zombie Mommy is no Whales on Stilts or The Flame-Pits of Delaware, but it's a fun, rollicking satire of horror tropes, not to mention heists. I particularly loved it when Lily's mother determines that she's going to die because in YA novels, the mothers of the protagonists

always die.

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LibraryThing member Ms.Penniman

Retelling: As Lily becomes more involved in the lives of her friends' science fiction novels, her mother experiences the foreboding realization that her own role in the stories might be a grim one. Mothers in books, after all, tend not to have the best outcomes. She packs up her bags and travels to

a town where she believes she will be safe as they have the lowest death rate. As it turns out, they can't die because they are already ghosts and zombies. In a series of surprising twists and turns, the crazy crew of young people that attempt to save her implement a dangerous plan to exorcise the quirky ghost of a Hollywood has-been and it frequently fails in delightfully funny ways.

Thoughts and feelings: The BEST chapter in this book is the one where the author breaks the forth wall to explain how he came up with the names of designer clothing to support the fashionista character, Madigan, Katie's upper-west side cousin. SO FUNNY. You must read this author.

If an M.T. Anderson book makes you laugh out loud in no one is around to hear it, is it still funny?

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