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    Zombie Tag

    By Hannah Moskowitz

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    Wil is desperate for his older brother to come back from the dead. But the thing about zombies is . . they don't exactly make the best siblings.

    Thirteen-year-old Wil Lowenstein copes with his brother's death by focusing on Zombie Tag, a mafia/
    capture the flag hybrid game where he and his friends fight off brain-eating zombies with their mothers' spatulas. What Wil doesn't tell anybody is that if he could bring his dead brother back as a zombie, he would in a heartbeat. But when Wil finds a way to summon all the dead within five miles, he's surprised to discover that his back-from-the-dead brother is emotionless and distant.
    In her first novel for younger readers, Moskowitz offers a funny and heartfelt look at how one boy deals with change, loss, and the complicated relationship between brothers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateDec 20, 2011
    ISBN9781429995276
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    Hannah Moskowitz

    Hannah Moskowitz is the award-winning author of the young adult novels Sick Kids In Love; Not Otherwise Specified; Break; Invincible Summer; Gone, Gone, Gone; and Teeth; as well as the middle grade novels Zombie Tag and Marco Impossible. She lives in New York City. 

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    • 5/5
      Zombies are popular right now, but this is the book that is so imaginatively unique, you wish you had come up with it yourself. The book is set in a world where zombies are a reality - proof of them was found as recent as thirty years ago. The problem is, no one knows how they were raised, how violently they acted when they were "alive", or how they died again. But when he finds a way to raise the dead, Wil knows he wants to bring his older brother back. Graham died months before of a freak asthma attack, and the family has been struggling in his absence. Wil's always been fascinated by zombies, has done extensive research, and plays a game with his friends called Zombie Tag. He finds a way to bring his brother (and all the dead in a five mile radius) back, but Graham… isn't Graham. He's missing all his emotions and soul. Wil is intent on helping Graham get all his feelings back, but Graham doesn't care. At a certain point, Wil has to decide if he should keep struggling or give up and let Graham have what he wants. As usual, Moskowitz writes brothers from a boy's point of view excellently. She includes instructions on playing Zombie Tag in the back of the book.
    • 4/5
      From December 2011 SLJ:
      Gr 5-8–Ever since his older brother’s death earlier this year, 12-year-old Wil’s coping strategy has been to escape with his friends into Zombie Tag, a game in which the “zombie” tries to capture the other players and eat their brains before they can find the hidden object and escape with it. Of course, he knows (or thinks he knows) that zombies don’t really eat people’s brains: he has scoured the Internet to piece together information on the zombie awakening of 30 years ago that the government still denies happened. From his research, he knows that some kind of bell woke the dead all those years ago, and that it has been hidden in a top-secret place so that an awakening can never happen again. When his friend Anthony lets slip that his father is the keeper of this Wake-Up Bell, Wil is determined to find it and bring Graham back to life. He is ultimately successful, but having his older brother back isn’t at all what he expected, and he finds that it is lonelier with Zombie Graham than it was without him. Moskowitz keeps readers guessing as to how Wil ultimately comes to terms with his situation. The efforts of Wil and his parents to cope first with Graham’s death and then with his reappearance are a major thread in the story. While Moskowitz’s characters are fully formed and believable, it’s never quite clear whether the author’s going for laughs or poignancy, and ultimately, the result falls a little flat. Still, this unique twist on zombie stories will engage readers who are looking for contemporary fiction sprinkled with a dash of the morbid.
    • 2/5
      Wil's favorite game is zombie tag. Object of the game: avoid the brain-eating zombies (your friends) and be the human who reaches the front door before you are turned in a zombie, too! But it is more than just a game for Wil, whose older brother just died, and what he wants more than anything is for his brother to come back - as a zombie or not (as long as he doesn't want to eat human brains). If Wil gets what he wants, will anyone else be happy? Will he? I wanted this to be funny or creepy, but it was just mostly sad. I don't understand why they had to talk about porn a few times in the book, out of place and ups the reader age (though the depth of the content does that too). The zombie tag game sounds fun, though, and there are directions in the back.
    • 4/5
      A very moving story about the bonds between brothers, and coping with loss.  Oh, and reanimating the dead!  It was heart breaking and heart warming.  I will be passing my copy on to my son's third grade class.
    • 5/5
      First and foremost, ZOMBIE TAG is a story about brothers. About the kind of love and friendship that can only exist within a family, and the special grief that comes when that bond is broken. Twelve-year-old Wil is a younger brother, and he knows about this grief. Not long ago, he lost his brother Graham. And he misses him. A lot.Right now, his only solace is in Zombie Tag. Or, really, the friends with whom he plays this made-up game. Wil and Graham used to make up a lot of games, and Wil just knows that Graham would have loved Zombie Tag. All his friends love it, and they play it in secret after the parents of whomever is hosting the sleep-over have gone to bed. It involves spatulas, Post-It notes, and a "key." But when it turns out that Anthony -- Wil's best friend -- has some new secrets about zombies (learned from his father's secret government job), Wil might have the opportunity to see his dead brother again after all. All he needs to do is find this mysterious bell, which Anthony confessed is somewhere in his house.But, here's the thing: the bell might bring back the dead, but it doesn't make them who they were in life. When Wil finds this out the hard way, no spatula in the world can save him from his fate, and the choices ahead aren't going to be easy.ZOMBIE TAG is such a brave, lovely book. Lyrically written, with well-placed humor, this is sure to capture the hearts of tween audiences and their parents alike. Doubtlessly, Hannah Moskowitz's YA fans will enjoy ZOMBIE TAG as well -- what it lacks in swear words it more than makes up for in charm. The book made this reader just a bit weepy, so here's looking at you, Newbery Committee. Do you think we could get some Zombies a shiny sticker in the near future?