The No-Brainer’s Guide to Decomposition
Written by Adrianna Cuevas
Published by HarperCollins
No one has ever called Frani Gonzalez squeamish. Seriously, whether it’s guts (no big deal), bugs (move aside, she’s got this), or anything else that you might find at the Central Texas Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, to her and her dad, the university’s body farm is just home.
Having bodies buried in her backyard doesn’t exactly make Frani the most popular kid in school, and the imaginary spider that lives in a web in her brain isn’t helping either. Arañita’s always to blame for the distracted thoughts weaving through Frani’s mind. But when a hand reaches out of the ground and grabs her ankle, Frani realizes that she’s got bigger problems.
Not everything is as it seems at the body farm, and now Frani must help the teenage zombie that crawled out of the dirt…before he gets too hungry. But as more and more zombies begin to appear—and they seem to get less and less friendly—can Frani embrace the true nature of her brain and count on new friendships to solve the body farm’s mystery before it’s overrun with the undead?
Primary ISBN: 9780063285545
Publication Date: September 2024
Available As: Hardcover, Audiobook, eBook
Middle Grade, Age 08 or older
Community Represented: Cuban/Cuban American, Japanese/Japanese American
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Discrimination: Abilities, Diverse Abilities: Neurological, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Horror, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, STEM
Setting: United States (Texas)
Character's Place in the Immigration Journey: Unknown Arrival
Book Creator(s) Connection to the Community Represented: Own Voices/Lived Experience
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