Out of Salem Contributor(s): Schrieve, Hal (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609809017 ISBN-13: 9781609809010 Publisher: Triangle Square OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Zombies - Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy - Contemporary - Young Adult Fiction | Lgbt |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2018029438 |
Lexile Measure: 770 |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (1.30 lbs) 448 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature A Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2019 The best Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever read--by debut author, Hal Schrieve. Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to monsters, and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed. Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly. |