Genre: Bluebonnet
Author: Max Brallier
Awards: Bluebonnet
Age Group: 9 to 12-year-olds
Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I think that this book would best fit a fifth-grade audience. I would love to have this book in the class library I think students would enjoy reading this book. Although the topic of the book isn't directly relatable to students, the characters and certain situations are relatable to students.
Summary: This book is about a boy named Jack Sullivan during the apocalypse. The book begins 42 days after the apocalypse started. Jack is at CVS trying to find a tiny screwdriver to fix his walkie-talkie. While at CVS Jack runs into a huge monster he names Blarg. Blarg tries to eat Jack, but Jack stabs him in the forehead with the splintered-end of his baseball bat and gets away. Jack returns to his safe spot, his tree house and repairs his walkie-talkie. Jack wants to fix his walkie-talkie to see if his best friend Quint is still out there. Jack calls out on the walkie-talkie but doesn't receive anything back, so he falls asleep. While Jack is asleep he has a nightmare about when the apocalypse started. It was a normal day, Quint and Jack were getting on the bus when a bully Dirk started to mess with Quint. Right as Jack stood up to stand up for his best friend, there was a loud scream and Jack looked out and saw zombies and a huge monster reaching for the bus. The two were able to escape from all the mess and decided to split up to go home and find out what was happening, that was the last time Jack saw his best friend. When Jack got home, he saw evidence that his foster family left without him so he stayed in his tree house. Jack suddenly wakes up to a familiar sound of the walkie-talkie catching signal. Over the walkie, Jack hears his best friend Quint, the two plan to meet up. The two best friends meet up and decide to go back to Jack's tree house. Later in the book, the two best friends decided to go out on a quest to rescue June, a girl whom Jack has a crush on, to rescue her. While out looking for June, the boys stumble across Dirk. Dirk saves the boys from a monster attack and they invite him back to the tree house. The three boys then all live together. Soon after, Dirk and Jack go out on a shopping trip for Quint, he makes weapons and inventions to protect the treehouse. The two run into trouble while on their shopping trip when Blarg shows up. Once again Jack is able to escape from the monster, this time with the help of Dirk. While retreating to the treehouse, Jack notices June's jacket hanging out a window of their middle school. Jack makes a plan with Dirk and Quint to go to the school and rescue June. The book ends with the group of boys finding June and getting her to come back to the treehouse with them. Although as they make their way, Blarg shows up and chases them back to their treehouse. The kids defeat Blarg after a long fight and rebuild their treehouse.
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