Happy Town

(Hardback)

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Stay calm and remain HAPPY. Help is on the way.

Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Jennifer L. Holm, this adventure-packed middle grade story, set in a world not too far from our own, follows a family that moves to a remote company town that seems perfect on the surface....

Keegan knows theres something off about Happy Town.

The isolated, high-tech company town is too perfectwith a dome keeping out bad weather and self-driving vehicles rumbling throughout the town delivering residents to work and school. Still, Keegan is excited to grow his art skills at Happy Towns ultra-modern middle school, even if he has less time to see his mom and stepdad because of their new jobs.

But when the two become obsessed with working and eating Happy Corp Meat Cramwich (the Microwaveable Sandwich Crammed with Meat) and Keegan gets sentenced to Mandatory Work Opportunities for refusing to follow Happy Towns shady rules, he discovers a dangerous glitch in the system thats turning the towns happy residents into zombies. Carnivorous, meat-craving, literalzombies. With his new friends Gloriana and Tank by his side, hell need to find a way to destroy Happy Towns happy systembefore theres nothing left.

Author Bio

Greg van Eekhout is also the author of Voyage of the Dogs, Cog, Weird Kid, and Fenris & Mott. He lives in San Diego, California with his astronomy/physics professor wife and two dogs. He's worked as an educational software developer, ice cream scooper, part-time college instructor, and telemarketer. Being a writer is the only job he's ever actually liked. You can find more about Greg at his website: www.writingandsnacks.com.