Zombie Train - by David Macinnis Gill (Hardcover)

About the Book

While twelve-year-old Wyatt rides out the zombie apocalypse on his crew's cobbled together train, a mysterious girl arrives with storries of a potential cure for the zombie parasite.

Book Synopsis

The Zombie Chasers meets The Goonies in David Macinnis Gill's middle grade debut about a group of tweens who ride out the zombie apocalypse on a cobbled-together train. Fans of Ty Drago's The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses and Max Brallier's The Last Kids on Earth will lose themselves in this page-turning, spine-chilling, and sometimes hilarious survival story.

Wyatt has been riding out the zombie apocalypse on his crew's cobbled-together train for what feels like forever. It's a hopeless journey, the train running a loop that covers thousands of miles across the western U.S. But when a mysterious girl arrives with stories of a so-called Nirvana and a potential cure for the zombie parasite, Wyatt must decide between searching for the cure and protecting those entrusted in his care.

David Macinnis Gill's Zombie Train is a compelling survival story full of action, suspense, and plenty of zombies. Filled with both harrowing and humorous moments, Zombie Train follows an eccentric cast of characters as they contend with a changing world and shifting loyalties and friendships, and as they fight to remain in control--of their lives and of the future.

Review Quotes

"Appropriately disgusting descriptions and puns establish the dark humor that pervades the work, and natural-sounding tween dialogue and a fully developed dystopian world are strengths." - Kirkus Reviews
"The tale has a surreal quality, but along with vividly drawn characters (some in advanced stages of decomposition) Gill offers zombie fans no few scary, macabre encounters. . . . A wild ride." - Booklist
"Readers will be swept along at a rapid pace through terrifying close calls, gallows humor, and apocalypse-defying moments of true community. Zombie books for a younger crowd are scarce, particularly ones with stakes as high as these and with an overall serious tone, and this. . . is sure to attract attention." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books