Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade. Max Brallier
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First published in the United States of America by Viking,
an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015
This edition published in 2020
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Text copyright © 2019 Max Brallier
Illustrations copyright © 2019 Douglas Holgate
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For Alyse.
For Daniels.
For Pupper.
For Everything.
– M. B.
For the “MPW Lads.”
Stay savage for all time.
– D. H.
CONTENTS
chapter nine
chapter ten
chapter eleven
chapter twelve
chapter thirteen
chapter fourteen
chapter fifteen
chapter sixteen
chapter seventeen
chapter eighteen
chapter nineteen
chapter twenty
chapter twenty-one
chapter twenty-two
chapter twenty-three
chapter twenty-four
chapter twenty-five
chapter twenty-six
chapter twenty-seven
Acknowledgements
Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road
Well, it happened. After all that time, they got us.
The zombies bit us.
We turned. We transformed.
Look at us – twisted undead faces, slumping undead posture.
We’re zombies. Absolute zombies.
Quint: zombie. Dirk: zombie. June: total, big-time zombie.
Things are different now . . .
Our adventures are a little slower: less darting around, more shambling. And our appetites have changed: less grilled donuts, more flesh burgers.
Y’know what – let me catch you up. Fill you in. Explain HOW we joined the ranks of the undead.
See, it’s been about a month since, uh, BIG STUFF HAPPENED. A month since we battled a new villain; a villain who was HUMAN . . .
This villain’s name is EVIE SNARK, and like me, she’s a super-mega-geek. But unlike me, she’s OUT OF HER EVER-LOVING MIND . . .
First, she stole my