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Zombie Baseball Beatdown
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In this inventive, fast-paced novel, New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi takes on hard-hitting themes--from food safety to racism and immigration--and creates a zany, grand-slam adventure that will get kids thinking about where their food comes from.
The zombie apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters! The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy corporation's plot to look the other way as tainted meat is sold to thousands all over the country. With no grownups left they can trust, Rabi and his friends will have to grab their bats to protect themselves (and a few of their enemies) if they want to stay alive...and maybe even save the world.
The zombie apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters! The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy corporation's plot to look the other way as tainted meat is sold to thousands all over the country. With no grownups left they can trust, Rabi and his friends will have to grab their bats to protect themselves (and a few of their enemies) if they want to stay alive...and maybe even save the world.
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“Ravi's Iowa town has always just been a place to live. Where people go to work at the local meat-packing plant, people play on local baseball teams and where bullies can make life hard but not unbearable. You know, just life. Well, it's just life until strange, REALLY strange things start happening. Things like people they know becoming UNDEAD and that meat-packing plant is NOT what it seems. Can Ravi and his friends figure out what's up before a Zombie Apocalypse is inevitable?
So, my two six year old sons chose this audiobook off the library shelf because: baseball and zombies. Here's the thing, though, that's not really what it is. It's WAY more about the meat industry, about racism and most especially ICE and the idea of deportation and family separation for being undocumented. NOT what I thought I was going to get with this book, not at all. I like the idea of standing up to bullies and all, but there is SO much bullying and racist epithets (towards both the Indian Ravi and his best friend who is from Mexico) that I felt like we were listening to just a lot of racist talk and I didn't like my kids hearing that, honestly. They enjoyed the zombie scenes and although I kept asking them if they wanted to keep listening (I was bored and didn't like the direction of the book), they did like it. So there's that. I know that nearly seven year olds are a bit young for the intended audience but I still wasn't thrilled. Meh.”
About Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of the highly acclaimed The Drowned Cities, Tool of War,and Ship Breaker, a New York Times bestseller, Michael L. Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the Edgar Awards nominee The Doubt Factory; a novel for younger readers, Zombie Baseball Beatdown; and two bestselling adult novels for adults, The Water Knife and The Windup Girl. His first work of collected short fiction was Pump Six and Other Stories. He co-wrote The Tangled Lands with Tobias S. Buckell. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, he lives in western Colorado with his wife and son. The author invites you to visit his website at windupstories.com.
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