The Big Field

Baseball Great

The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Cold Cereal: The Cold Cereal Saga

The Orphan of Awkward Falls

Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More

Patina: 2

The apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters...ZOMBIES!!!

The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy corporation's plot to look the other way as tainted meat is sold to thousands all over the country. With no grownups left they can trust, Rabi and his friends will have to grab their bats to protect themselves (and a few of their enemies) if they want to stay alive...and maybe even save the world.

In this inventive, fast-paced novel that strikes a pitch-perfect tone for reluctant readers, National Book Award finalist and Printz Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi effectively uses humour and high-intensity action to take on hard-hitting themes - from food safety to racism and immigration - and creates a zany, grand-slam adventure that will get kids thinking about where their food comes from.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

The Big Field

Mike Lupica, 2008

Baseball Great

Tim Green, 2000

The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King

Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate, 2017

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Kadir Nelson, 2008

Cold Cereal: The Cold Cereal Saga

Adam Rex, 2012

The Orphan of Awkward Falls

Keith Graves, 2011

Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More

Chris Raschka, Jack Prelutsky, 2006

Patina: 2

Jason Reynolds, 2017