We are thrilled to announce the release of “Max Random and the Zombie 500” by Mark London Williams.
Weeks after watching her principal try to chew up her teacher, and minutes after she’d just lost her family, 12-year-old Aurora Bonsall begins her escape. Alongside Max Random in his hand-built go-kart, they set off across a ruined landscape of studio backlots, wrecked shopping malls, and not-so-abandoned hospitals. At every step, they’ll find the not-quite-dead waiting for them.
As they head for a rendezvous point where Max insists they’ll be safe, it becomes clear that surviving humans can be far more dangerous than the Nano-Zs taking over the world. But as Aurora discovers Max has secrets of his own, she wonders if there can ever be any escape at all.
“Max Random and the Zombie 500“, the first release in our Gradeside Stories program for young readers, is available now in hardcover, trade paperback, and digital editions from most online booksellers.