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The Zombie Chasers #5
The Zombie Chasers #5: Nothing Left to Ooze by John Kloepfer (6-Nov-2014) Paperback
The living dead are back and they mean business in Nothing Left to Ooze , book five of John Kloepfer's sidesplitting Zombie Chasers tween series, with illustrations by David DeGrand. Loaded with middle school shenanigans, fast-paced adventure, hilarious black-and-white drawings throughout, and—of course—a slew of brain-gobbling ghouls, The Zombie Chasers #5: Nothing Left to Ooze is the perfect pick for fans of the series and zombie aficionados everywhere! After the original antidote wears off and millions of Americans suddenly rezombify, Zack Clarke and his crew of Zombie Chasers are on a mission to find a lasting cure. But to stop the undead for good, they'll have to track down a brand-new Zombie Chaser first! Hitting the road again, the Zombie Chasers set out on a zany international expedition where they'll have to plow through abominable snow zombies on the Niagara River and outrun slime-drooling thrill-seekers at the biggest and best amusement park in the country! With rotting fairy-tale princesses and half-dead vacationers, it's not just the Tilt-a-Whirl that will make them woozy. Can the Zombie Chasers end this carnival of frights before it's too late?
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December 17, 2022
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We left the last book with everyone rezombified and the kids, Zack, Madison, Zoe, Ozzie, and Rice, trying to find a way to save the world again. We pick up this book with the kids in the vegan van that they stole, on their way to Canada to retrieve Madison’s cousin Olivia. Olivia is the only person left that they know, who can still unzombify people because of her vegan diet. They have to go across a frozen lake to get to Canada and while trying to save her dog, Twinkles, Madison’s arm gets bitten by a zombie and she becomes zombified. Once they reach Olivia’s house, they find that Olivia and her family are on vacation to Buncos Fun World in Florida. Police arrive at the house and recognize the kids as the ones who previously saved the world. The police offer them a private plane flight to Florida so they can save the world yet again. While on the plane zombie Madison bites the pilot, so the plane goes down and lands in Bunco’s Fun World. Once they find Olivia they unzombify Madison. They find a safe place in the cafeteria and Rice starts on making a zombie antidote. Olivia’s family is zombified and trapped in the walk-in freezer so they decide to use them as guinea pigs. The antidote Rice made ends up turning the family into super-zombies who can communicate with each other and are super strong! While trying to escape the super zombies they find Bunco himself hiding in his office. They go to Bunco’s gumball making factory still being chased by the super zombies. Rice tries make another antidote using the gumballs, but soon finds that the ingredient that turned Olivia’s family into super zombies, was already in the gumballs. This caused all the zombies who chased them from Fun World to turn into super zombies. Now the kids have to find a way to un-super-zombify their new enemies.
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I loved this book like all the other ones in this series. However, I did like this book better than the previous one because I feel like more happened in this one than the last one. I like that we get to meet more characters instead of characters who just come and go. Even though Olivia’s family is zombified throughout the book, they are a VERY big part of the book and I’m glad to get to meet them once they are no longer zombies. Olivia is a great character because even though her a Madison are similar and so close, they still have their differences in personalities and still argue like real family does. We get to see their differences especially when looking at the way that they dress. While Madison is very girly and trendy, and has the blonde hair/blue eyes combo, we’re introduced to Olivia by her dark clothing, dark hair, and dark eyebags. I like that this book has jokes in it that kids and older people can understand and laugh to, and the fact it has some bigger words that kids can learn and others can understand. This means that the book is perfect for middle school level readers, which is great because that’s his target audience! The kids always were quick to come up with a plan when something inevitably ruined theirs or go in the way. Hey were quick on their feet and good problem solvers. I recommend this book to anyone who likes zombie shows or short books or honestly any middle schooler. This was my favorite book series in middle school so I will always recommend it to anyone this level or even higher, maybe not a book for kids younger than middle school but I bet some would enjoy having their parents read it to them.
3 questions
One of my questions f course is, what is going to happen in the next book?
How will the kids find a way to cure the super zombies and return them back to normal?
And if their last antidote was only temporary, how will they ensure the next one will be permanent?
We left the last book with everyone rezombified and the kids, Zack, Madison, Zoe, Ozzie, and Rice, trying to find a way to save the world again. We pick up this book with the kids in the vegan van that they stole, on their way to Canada to retrieve Madison’s cousin Olivia. Olivia is the only person left that they know, who can still unzombify people because of her vegan diet. They have to go across a frozen lake to get to Canada and while trying to save her dog, Twinkles, Madison’s arm gets bitten by a zombie and she becomes zombified. Once they reach Olivia’s house, they find that Olivia and her family are on vacation to Buncos Fun World in Florida. Police arrive at the house and recognize the kids as the ones who previously saved the world. The police offer them a private plane flight to Florida so they can save the world yet again. While on the plane zombie Madison bites the pilot, so the plane goes down and lands in Bunco’s Fun World. Once they find Olivia they unzombify Madison. They find a safe place in the cafeteria and Rice starts on making a zombie antidote. Olivia’s family is zombified and trapped in the walk-in freezer so they decide to use them as guinea pigs. The antidote Rice made ends up turning the family into super-zombies who can communicate with each other and are super strong! While trying to escape the super zombies they find Bunco himself hiding in his office. They go to Bunco’s gumball making factory still being chased by the super zombies. Rice tries make another antidote using the gumballs, but soon finds that the ingredient that turned Olivia’s family into super zombies, was already in the gumballs. This caused all the zombies who chased them from Fun World to turn into super zombies. Now the kids have to find a way to un-super-zombify their new enemies.
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I loved this book like all the other ones in this series. However, I did like this book better than the previous one because I feel like more happened in this one than the last one. I like that we get to meet more characters instead of characters who just come and go. Even though Olivia’s family is zombified throughout the book, they are a VERY big part of the book and I’m glad to get to meet them once they are no longer zombies. Olivia is a great character because even though her a Madison are similar and so close, they still have their differences in personalities and still argue like real family does. We get to see their differences especially when looking at the way that they dress. While Madison is very girly and trendy, and has the blonde hair/blue eyes combo, we’re introduced to Olivia by her dark clothing, dark hair, and dark eyebags. I like that this book has jokes in it that kids and older people can understand and laugh to, and the fact it has some bigger words that kids can learn and others can understand. This means that the book is perfect for middle school level readers, which is great because that’s his target audience! The kids always were quick to come up with a plan when something inevitably ruined theirs or go in the way. Hey were quick on their feet and good problem solvers. I recommend this book to anyone who likes zombie shows or short books or honestly any middle schooler. This was my favorite book series in middle school so I will always recommend it to anyone this level or even higher, maybe not a book for kids younger than middle school but I bet some would enjoy having their parents read it to them.
3 questions
One of my questions f course is, what is going to happen in the next book?
How will the kids find a way to cure the super zombies and return them back to normal?
And if their last antidote was only temporary, how will they ensure the next one will be permanent?
November 29, 2020
FINALLY!!! one to the next
March 4, 2023
Silly, gross zombie book ideal for kids who like gross out humor and constant action.
April 17, 2015
The book I am reading is called "The Zombie Chasers #5: Nothing left to Ooze" by John Kloepfer. I really liked this book because there is a lot of action and I just like zombies. The setting of this book is all over the US. They are always traveling staying away from the zombies. In the story, after curing everyone of zombifacation, the cure wore off and nearly most of the country were rezombified. The gang, made up of Zack, Zoey, Ooze, Rice, and Madison, must go and find a new cure to unzombify everyone including their family. Madison knew the cure formula and she needed to go to her cousin's house to get supplies and her help. While they were trying to reach Madison's cousin, Madison was bit! She went through the zombification process and became a zombie. The group then meets up with Maddie's cousin and try to make the cure. Read the book to find out more. I highly recommend this book for those who really like zombie and action books. This book is filled with action, some comedy, and flat out zombies.
October 7, 2014
My Review: If your kids love reading zombie books then they will find ‘The Zombie Chasers’ fun to read. In book #5, Zack and his friends comes up with a plan to defeat the living dead for good, but first they have to track down a brand new Zombie Chase to get the job done. But first they will have to survive long enough to come up with a solution on how to stop the humans from being zombies. Illustrations by David DeGrand are funny looking and helps tell the story.
FTC Disclosure: I received a review copy of this book HarperCollins Publishing in exchange for a fair and honest review. I was not monetarily compensated for my opinion in any way.
FTC Disclosure: I received a review copy of this book HarperCollins Publishing in exchange for a fair and honest review. I was not monetarily compensated for my opinion in any way.
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April 25, 2016Nothing Left to Ooze by John kloepfer is about this kid named Zach has gone to Canada to find Madison's cousin Olivia. They need her to get the antidote. Once they get to her house they find out that she has gone to bunco fun land in Florida. What will they do next?
I think this is a good book. I like the way it used words that where gibberish. Also I like the fact that they make it not scary. I rate this book about a four and a half.
I recommend this book to people who like action, cartoon, and adventure books. Overall I really liked this book.
I think this is a good book. I like the way it used words that where gibberish. Also I like the fact that they make it not scary. I rate this book about a four and a half.
I recommend this book to people who like action, cartoon, and adventure books. Overall I really liked this book.
September 26, 2015
I really liked this book. They really explained whats happening in the story. and I like how they really had a plan to stop this zombie apocalypse and the action in this book. Wow once I read the intro I was like wow I'm really going to like this book. Once I finished this book I wanted to read all the Zombie Chasers books. But I couldn't find anymore. This book reminds me of my childhood. Which certainly there's no Zombie Apocalypse going on right now.
September 1, 2014
My 10 year old son read this to me and he had a few things to say. "Good book for kids. Author put weird words in that I didn't understand. Interested enough to read the next book. The author left it really open."
February 21, 2014
Awesome
Was hilarious! Rice was a retard tho! -Coming from a 12 yr old. Now I need more words blah !
Was hilarious! Rice was a retard tho! -Coming from a 12 yr old. Now I need more words blah !
April 2, 2014
Love the series!!
April 24, 2016
I love this series, now reading Book 6: Zombies of the Caribbean.
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