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Better Off Undead

Liz Szabla at Feiwel and Friends has acquired James Preller's Dead (But Cautiously Optimistic), pitched as The Walking Dead meets The Mysterious Benedict Society. In the "not-too-distant future," a seventh-grade undead boy has to adjust to middle-school life as a zombie, and with three unlikely friends, he navigates a mystery involving global warming, disappearing bees, and billionaire developers... and more zombies.

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It's slated for fall 2016; Rosemary Stimola at Stimola Literary Studio brokered the deal for North American rights.

Audience
childrensmiddle grade
Length
medium · 288 pages

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