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Infestation

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Infestation

Contributors:

By (Author) Timothy J Bradley
Illustrated by Timothy J Bradley

ISBN:

9780545459044

Publisher:

Scholastic US

Imprint:

Scholastic US

Publication Date:

1st April 2013

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Children

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Childrens / Teenage fiction: School stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers

Dewey:

FIC

Prizes:

Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2016

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

192

Dimensions:

Width 136mm, Height 193mm, Spine 12mm

Weight:

132g

Description

A contemporary take on the classic creature-feature genre. INFESTATION is a thrilling, fast-paced story that will leave your skin crawling.

When Andy Greenwood is sent to the Reclamation School for Boys he expects the lousy food, mean drill sergeant instructors, and brutal bullies. What he doesn't expect is an infestation of weirdly large and aggressive ants, or the itching welts all over the staff and students. Even odder, Andy learns that kids never leave the school when they're supposed to. They just seem to get stuck there indefinitely.Following a ground-splitting earthquake, however, things quickly go from bad to horrifying. The school is overrun by monstrous bugs, and Andy himself comes face to face with mutant ants the size of humans, equipped with pinchers that can cut steel. Trapped in a cinderblock institutional building in the New Mexico desert, miles from civilization, Andy must figure out a way to save himself and the surviving boys from this nightmare.

Reviews

Praise for Infestation

"Bradley wastes no time throwing his characters into the action . . . The pseudoscience needed to bring his monsters to life and combat them has verisimilitude without bogging down in details . . . [T]he excitement never falters." --Publishers Weekly

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