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    Zombiefied!: Infected
    Zombiefied!: Infected
    Zombiefied!: Infected
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    Zombiefied!: Infected

    By C.M. Gray

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    The second book in this hilariously spooky and spookily hilarious new middle-grade series

     


    Benjamin Roy is now a zombie ... well, a half-zombie to be exact.

    The trouble is he can't tell anyone about his new infrared vision and super-speed. Not even his best friend, Sophie. 'Cause he's pretty sure the government or the police or, even worse, his parents will lock him up if they find out.

    But then someone starts watching him. And following him.

    Somebody knows his secret. And unless Ben can figure out who it is, he'll have to start running. Or lurching really fast.

    Ages: 8-12

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781460704936
    Zombiefied!: Infected
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    C.M. Gray

    Carmen Gray graduated from Edith Cowan University (WAAPA) in 1996 and has worked in the design and visual art industry ever since. For the last ten years, she has been teaching art at CQ TAFE & CQ University. She is the author of the Zombiefied! series.

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      Book preview

      Zombiefied! - C.M. Gray

      Dedication

      To Pat,

      This one’s for you.

      See? The cat doesn’t always get all of my attention.

      I’m not even going to mention him.

      (A picture doesn’t count, does it?)

      Contents

      Dedication

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Chapter 20

      Also by C.M. Gray

      Copyright

      1

      ‘Be careful!’

      I glanced down from where I was clinging to the wall. Sophie’s worried face peered up at me.

      ‘I’m fine,’ I shouted. ‘It’s easy!’ I swung my leg across to the next grip.

      ‘You’re not supposed to be up there without a harness,’ Sophie called.

      We were alone in the school gym, a massive building with windows lining the tops of the walls. Three huge lights hung from the roof. They were surrounded by metal cages, which I guessed protected them from stray balls.

      Attached to one side was the new climbing wall. It had been installed a few days ago, although we’d been banned from using it until the safety gear arrived. But today the PE teacher was late and everyone else was mucking around outside on the oval. I wasn’t going to let this chance slip past.

      I grabbed a grip above my head and hauled myself higher.

      ‘I can’t watch!’

      I ignored Sophie. There was no way I’d fall, and even if I did, it wouldn’t matter. You see, the truth is I’m a zombie. Being a zombie means I’m already dead, or undead, if you want to see it that way. So I’m pretty sure I can’t die again. Not that I’ve ever tested that theory, but it seems logical, right?

      Although, to be fair, I’m not a full zombie. Sure, I’m not exactly alive, but I’m not a lurching, eat-your-face-off monster either. Technically I’m a half zombie, which means I’ve got infrared vision and I’m stronger and faster than pretty much anyone else on the planet. It also means that, even though I kind of want to eat brains occasionally, I haven’t actually killed anyone to get them.

      Yet.

      I reached up again. I was almost at the top of the climbing wall now — I just needed to get to the next grip. But it was too high; I could barely scrape it with my fingertips. The only way I’d be able to grab it was if I jumped.

      I bent my knees.

      ‘Ben!’ shrieked Sophie. ‘Don’t!’

      Adrenaline flooded my body. That always happened when I was about to use my zombie abilities. I leant back slightly and gazed up at the grip. The muscles in my legs tensed. I let go of the wall and sprang upwards.

      But just as my hands and feet left the wall, my eyes switched to infrared vision. Man! That was annoying! I mean, having superpowers sounds awesome, but nobody ever tells you how hard they are to control. My eyes felt like they were being burnt by red-hot pokers. I snapped them shut just as my hand closed around the grip. It slipped through my fingers and then I was falling. ‘AAAGGGHHH!’ Sophie screamed.

      I hit the floor with a crash and lay still for a few seconds, wondering if I was even more dead than before.

      ‘BEN!’ shouted Sophie, rushing over to me. ‘Are you OK?’

      I opened my eyes a crack, but my infrared vision was still active. I shut them again.

      Sophie shook my shoulder. ‘Ben. BEN!’

      It’s OK, I wanted to say, but all I could manage was a groan.

      ‘Don’t move,’ she said, jumping up and running toward the doors at the far end of the gym. ‘I’ll get help!’

      ‘NNNNGGGGHHHH!’ I tried to stop her. I didn’t want to get into trouble for climbing the wall without permission. And, even more importantly, I didn’t want anyone finding out about my secret. Nobody knows I’m a zombie and that’s the way I want to keep it. If anyone finds out, I’ll be locked up in a lab somewhere, or worse, grounded! Not even Sophie, who is my best friend, knows the truth. She was with me when it happened, but luckily she can’t remember a thing about it.

      In a few seconds the sound of her footsteps had faded.

      Great! I was stuck. There was no way I could open my eyes until my infrared vision switched off, but I had no control over that. I’d only been infected for about a month, so I still wasn’t very good at using my zombie powers. I tried to open my eyes again.

      ‘AAAGGGHHH!’ Nope.

      A bit of dribble ran down my cheek. I tried to close my mouth, but I couldn’t move it. Keeping my eyes shut, I felt around my face. My jaw was in the wrong place. I held it with both hands and straightened it up. There was a grinding noise and finally I could open and close my mouth again, though it was still pretty stiff.

      I wriggled the toes on each foot. Then I opened and closed my fingers. Everything seemed to be working.

      Now, if only my normal vision would come back. When my infrared switched on and off, it felt like a tiny pair of window wipers sliding across my eyeballs. I was sure there was a trick to controlling it, but I couldn’t figure it out. Infrared works by magnifying heat and making it really bright. Super bright. That’s why it hurts so much when it switches on unexpectedly during the day.

      I was about to try opening my eyes again when there was a noise from the other end of the gym. ‘. . . You’re blubbering, girl. I’m sure he’s intact. This is no excuse to stop the star-jumps, people! Hup ninety-one, hup ninety-two, hup ninety-three . . .’

      My heart sank. Miss Guide had arrived.

      2

      Miss Guide taught PE and coached the school hockey team. She was small and middle-aged, so she didn’t look all that sporty, but she was actually really

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