The No Brainer's Guide to Decomposition

By Adrianna Cuevas

Frani battles rising undead at her dad's body farm, confronting her ADHD and a growing zombie threat.

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256 pages· 50,670 words· Est. 7 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Frani Gonzalez isn't afraid of the body farm her dad runs, but when a zombie grabs her ankle, everything changes. With her ADHD and an imaginary spider named Arañita complicating her thoughts, Frani must navigate a growing undead threat. As more zombies rise, she must rely on new friendships and her unique mind to uncover the mystery before the body farm is overrun. Can Frani embrace her true self and stop the undead in time?

From the publisher

In Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Adrianna Cuevas’s new spooky middle grade novel. Frani must fight to stop the undead from rising in her father’s body-farm laboratory–that is, if she can embrace the true nature of her brain and its ADHD. No one has ever called Frani Gonzalez squeamish. Seriously, whether it’s guts (no big deal), bugs (move aside, she’s got this), or anything else that you might find at the Central Texas Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, to her and her dad, the university’s body farm is just home.Having bodies buried in her backyard doesn’t exactly make Frani the most popular kid in school, and the imaginary spider that lives in a web in her brain isn’t helping either. Arañita’s always to blame for the distracted thoughts weaving through Frani’s mind. But when a hand reaches out of the ground and grabs her ankle, Frani realizes that she’s got bigger problems.Not everything is as it seems at the body farm, and now Frani must help the teenage zombie that crawled out of the dirt…before he gets too hungry. But as more and more zombies begin to appear–and they seem to get less and less friendly–can Frani embrace the true nature of her brain and count on new friendships to solve the body farm’s mystery before it’s overrun with the undead? Perfect for Halloween ReadingIdeal for fans of the supernaturalFeatures light scares

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