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The Zombie Chasers #4
Les Chasseurs de zombies: L’Empire State du gluant
Six mois après que Zack Clarke, sa soeur, Zoé, et leurs copains, Rice, Madison et Ozzie ont sauvé le pays des monstrueux dévoreurs de cerveaux, les choses ont fini par revenir à la normale. Les élèves de l’école secondaire Romero visitent New York lors d’un voyage scolaire, et Zack et sa bande réussissent même à participer à un entretien télévisé entre les diverses visites des sites de la Grosse Pomme. Mais leur excursion passe du géant au gluant quand des millions de personnes se retrouvent mystérieusement rezombifiées! Les chasseurs de zombies reprennent le service contre les morts-vivants, mais pourront-ils échapper aux rues bondées de la ville et trouver un nouvel antidote? Ou le jour Z est-il là pour durer?
177 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 16, 2013
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October 14, 2022
Summary
The book starts as the main kids from this novel series, Zack, Ozzie, Zoe, Madison, Rice, and their dog Twinkles, are all in New York with their school and also about to go do an interview after they saved the world from zombies the first time. The kids are with their class in the park, eating pizza and having fun. When the class is visiting the Empire State Building, Rice pulls Zack behind to ask him to help him film a miniature King Kong movie. When they’re done filming, Rice suddenly falls to the ground and starts moaning and groaning and Zack things he’s just playing a prank, but he re-zombifies. Zack goes to inform his fellow zombie hunters of what happened. This leads to New York City (and the whole world) re-zombifying. They try to use Madison’s vegan blood to un-zombify people like they did before, but earlier in the day when they had the pizza at the park, Zoe had convinced Madison to try a pepperoni and some cheese, so they can no longer use her blood. They call Duplessis, the scientist who made the original antidote, to ask him what they need to do to save the world for the second time. He pretty much tells them that they need to find more vegans. Zack remembers that Madison had a band-aid on earlier when they were in the park before she ate the pizza. She had taken it off and thrown it away for a new band-aid. They make their way to the park while fighting through zombies, but as soon as they get the band-aid, a zombie Rice eats it. Madison knows there is a place in Brooklyn with a bunch of vegans. They head there in hopes of finding a non-zombie vegan who will help them save the world. Once they do, they try to take him back with them but a zombified plant bites the vegan, and they lose their last hope. While on the road in the delivery van they took, Madison remembers that she had a cousin who lives in Canada, who is just like her and also follows the same (vegan) diet! So, we finish the book with a cliffhanger as the kids decide to drive to Canada.
Review
When I was in middle school, me and my friend would each rent one of the books of this series from the library and when we would finish our we would trade and read the others. Rereading this book made me so happy, because it was like being taken back to sixth grade science class, reading during free time. Even reading this now as a sophomore in high school, it is still a very cute and enjoyable story and I can imagine myself reading the whole series again. The book is great for younger people because its enjoyable and reels you in but still have bigger words that I probably didn’t know when I was 11. The author did a great job at making a story kids will relish, and still learn from. The books are pretty short and end on cliffhangers so kids will want to continue reading the other books. This might sound dumb, but if you’re someone who doesn’t like reading and likes short books you don’t have to think too hard about, then I recommend this book for you. Its almost like not even reading a book and you’re just watching a show, it’s very descriptive and easy to imagine the scenes. I felt when reading this book, that as soon as I started it was already over, and still, a lot happened in the book. The characters are all very likeable and don’t stick to normal kids shows/books stereotypes. For example; Rice is a heavier set character but they don’t portray him as dumb, he’s actually the smart character who has all the answers. Madison is the pretty blonde, who is girly and likes shopping but they also don’t make her stupid. My favorite character in the book was Ozzie. He was strong and always saving the day, yet always so positive. Zack and Zoe are siblings and they have normal sibling energy, always bickering yet love each other dearly and it adds some of the humor to the book. The rest of the humor comes from the zombies and the situations that come from them. You wouldn’t think this would be the case because well, they’re zombies, but it is a children’s book. Even though they don’t make the zombies scary, the author still describes them well and the illustrator does great disgusting drawing of them, that really stick to the description. I think this is a great book for children but it’s still very underrated and you cant find much about it on the internet, I think more people need to read these books.
Questions
Why did their first zombie antidote wear off?
How will they keep the next antidote they make from wearing off?
Will they meet back up with Duplessis, and will he help them to make the new antidote?
The book starts as the main kids from this novel series, Zack, Ozzie, Zoe, Madison, Rice, and their dog Twinkles, are all in New York with their school and also about to go do an interview after they saved the world from zombies the first time. The kids are with their class in the park, eating pizza and having fun. When the class is visiting the Empire State Building, Rice pulls Zack behind to ask him to help him film a miniature King Kong movie. When they’re done filming, Rice suddenly falls to the ground and starts moaning and groaning and Zack things he’s just playing a prank, but he re-zombifies. Zack goes to inform his fellow zombie hunters of what happened. This leads to New York City (and the whole world) re-zombifying. They try to use Madison’s vegan blood to un-zombify people like they did before, but earlier in the day when they had the pizza at the park, Zoe had convinced Madison to try a pepperoni and some cheese, so they can no longer use her blood. They call Duplessis, the scientist who made the original antidote, to ask him what they need to do to save the world for the second time. He pretty much tells them that they need to find more vegans. Zack remembers that Madison had a band-aid on earlier when they were in the park before she ate the pizza. She had taken it off and thrown it away for a new band-aid. They make their way to the park while fighting through zombies, but as soon as they get the band-aid, a zombie Rice eats it. Madison knows there is a place in Brooklyn with a bunch of vegans. They head there in hopes of finding a non-zombie vegan who will help them save the world. Once they do, they try to take him back with them but a zombified plant bites the vegan, and they lose their last hope. While on the road in the delivery van they took, Madison remembers that she had a cousin who lives in Canada, who is just like her and also follows the same (vegan) diet! So, we finish the book with a cliffhanger as the kids decide to drive to Canada.
Review
When I was in middle school, me and my friend would each rent one of the books of this series from the library and when we would finish our we would trade and read the others. Rereading this book made me so happy, because it was like being taken back to sixth grade science class, reading during free time. Even reading this now as a sophomore in high school, it is still a very cute and enjoyable story and I can imagine myself reading the whole series again. The book is great for younger people because its enjoyable and reels you in but still have bigger words that I probably didn’t know when I was 11. The author did a great job at making a story kids will relish, and still learn from. The books are pretty short and end on cliffhangers so kids will want to continue reading the other books. This might sound dumb, but if you’re someone who doesn’t like reading and likes short books you don’t have to think too hard about, then I recommend this book for you. Its almost like not even reading a book and you’re just watching a show, it’s very descriptive and easy to imagine the scenes. I felt when reading this book, that as soon as I started it was already over, and still, a lot happened in the book. The characters are all very likeable and don’t stick to normal kids shows/books stereotypes. For example; Rice is a heavier set character but they don’t portray him as dumb, he’s actually the smart character who has all the answers. Madison is the pretty blonde, who is girly and likes shopping but they also don’t make her stupid. My favorite character in the book was Ozzie. He was strong and always saving the day, yet always so positive. Zack and Zoe are siblings and they have normal sibling energy, always bickering yet love each other dearly and it adds some of the humor to the book. The rest of the humor comes from the zombies and the situations that come from them. You wouldn’t think this would be the case because well, they’re zombies, but it is a children’s book. Even though they don’t make the zombies scary, the author still describes them well and the illustrator does great disgusting drawing of them, that really stick to the description. I think this is a great book for children but it’s still very underrated and you cant find much about it on the internet, I think more people need to read these books.
Questions
Why did their first zombie antidote wear off?
How will they keep the next antidote they make from wearing off?
Will they meet back up with Duplessis, and will he help them to make the new antidote?
May 15, 2017
this book was okay it felt weird because they kept on getting an idea but it failing somehow if this next one fails IDK.
January 18, 2018
I love 5he book it is unique and havs
I love it it's most likely it's so unique it's unlike others that's what makes it good so good I love it
I love it it's most likely it's so unique it's unlike others that's what makes it good so good I love it
March 4, 2023
Fun, silly, gross out zombie book, filled with action, quips and non-stop stomach turning descriptions. Sets up the second part of this book series fairly well.
April 6, 2018
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I found this in the Little Lending Library by my house and thought it looked right up my alley. I love zombies and gross-out books like Captain Underpants and The Day My Butt Went Psycho. Unfortunately, this one did not live up to my expectations. This is the first book I have read in The Zombie Chasers series, so I didn't really know what to expect. The writing was okay. Kloepfer comes up with some truly gruesome and impressive descriptions to describe the slimy zombies. But sometimes it just felt like his looked up synonyms for "gross" and "monster" online and threw them into the text haphazardly. Sometimes they just didn't fit all that well, like when he randomly referred to the zombies as hellhounds. That is not a word I would have expected used to refer to humanoid zombies. Also, the plot was pretty loose. I'm not sure exactly what happened in the first three books, but based on this one I can pretty much guess. Basically, in this one, people become rezombified and the group has to once again save humanity. However, it really just turns into a string of zombie encounters. They are entertaining, but don't really tie the story together. The story drags on with the lack of story. Also, the cliff-hanger ending was a huge disappointment.
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March 14, 2016Empire State of Slime by John Kloepfer is a good book. It is about this kid named zack who kinds out that everyone is a zombie. they go around trying to find a cure. Once they found it they cure every one in the world. They where back to a normal life then they soon find out that the cure was only temperarily. Now they have to go an find a scientist to make them a permenent cure.
This was a great book. I really liked how the book kept going. I also liked how there where constant proplems being solved. I also liked how there was a cliff hanger at the end of this book.
I really liked this book. I would give this book 4 and a half stars. I reccomend this book to people who like mystery books. I really liked this book and I hope you like it too.
This was a great book. I really liked how the book kept going. I also liked how there where constant proplems being solved. I also liked how there was a cliff hanger at the end of this book.
I really liked this book. I would give this book 4 and a half stars. I reccomend this book to people who like mystery books. I really liked this book and I hope you like it too.
May 4, 2013
My 9 year old son and I love the series.
September 23, 2014
Very interesting it is made so that you don't have to read the first four
April 24, 2016
I like this book series. I think it's great that the kids try not to kill the zombie, that they just stops them from biting them by knocking them unconscious.
January 21, 2014
age six says "It is too long."
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