Engaging from the very first page, Ty Drago''s thrilling children''s debut has heart, it has humor, and it has straight up, gross-out horror.

"On a sunny Wednesday morning in October, a day that would mark the end of one life and the beginning of another, I found out my grouchy next door neighbor was the walking dead. When you turn around expecting to see something familiar, and instead see something else altogether, it takes a little while for your brain to catch up with your eyes. I call it the ''Holy Crap Factor.''"

Forced to flee his home and family, twelve-year-old Will Ritter falls in with the Undertakers—a rag-tag army of teenage resistance fighters who''ve banded together to battle the Corpses.

Praise for Ty Drago:

"...The author hardly sets a foot or a word wrong."—Publishers Weekly

"More, if you please, Mr. Drago."—Booklist