{"id":562,"date":"2013-11-25T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=562"},"modified":"2013-11-05T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:35:59","slug":"zombie-queen-of-newbury-high-by-amanda-ashby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/zombiequeen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-563\" alt=\"zombiequeen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/zombiequeen.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mia gets good grades and has an obsession with \u201cBuffy\u201d. Popular kids rarely notice her, so when Rob, the most popular boy in school, asks her out, and then invites her to the prom, she can\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 But Samantha, the popular girl in class, is trying to steal Rob away \u2013 and it looks like it is working.\u00a0 Dejected, Mia and her hypochondriac best friend Candice go to visit a creepy old lady who sells herbs and spells to buy a love spell.\u00a0 Mia completes the \u201clove spell\u201d and believes it\u2019s working, but then suddenly everyone is being nice to her, and giving her snacks\u2026 and for some reason they all think she smells like roasted chicken.\u00a0 The quiet new boy, Chase, lets Mia know that the spell she cast wasn\u2019t actually a love spell \u2013 it is actually slowly turning the whole school into zombies.\u00a0 Mia, Chase, and Candice get to work trying to save their school from a zombie infestation just a week before Prom!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Written for the 12 and up age group, this book is sweet, funny and quite charming.\u00a0 Themes of friendship and childhood relationships run through the book. (Example: just because a guy is popular doesn\u2019t make him the right guy for you.)\u00a0 This book is geared toward girls and plays heavily on the scattered, over-dramatic mindset of high school girls.\u00a0 There is a romantic thread in the book, though it\u2019s by no means in the forefront of the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Contains: people with the intention of eating Mia, a kiss, and some name calling of the catty high school girl type.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Review by KDP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mia gets good grades and has an obsession with \u201cBuffy\u201d. Popular kids rarely notice her, so when Rob, the most popular boy in school, asks her out, and then invites her to the prom, she can\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 But Samantha, the popular girl in class, is trying to steal Rob away \u2013 and it looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-ya-books","category-zombies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-94","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}