01653cam a2200301 4500 430883035 TxAuBib 20200723120000.0 191027s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781536201062 1536201065 TxAuBib LaReau, Kara. Rise of Zombert / Kara LaReau ; illustrated by Ryan Andrews. 1st ed. Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2020. 134 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Zombert While helping her best friend, Danny, film his latest horror flick, Mellie discovers a scraggly cat behind a dumpster outside the YummCo Foods factory. Mellie names the stray Bert and hides him in her room, knowing her parents wont let her keep him. But soon Bert has decapitated all her stuffed animals, and before long he is leaving the headless corpses of birds and mice as gifts for her. Danny is convinced the cat is a zombie, living on the brains of his victims. But is that what is really going on? Award-winning author Kara LaReau lets loose a fresh and sharply funny new mystery series, with an irresistible touch of the macabre. Fans of creepy stories and animal lovers alike will devour this fast-moving first episode in one gulp. 20200723. Girls Juvenile fiction. Cats Juvenile fiction. Human-Animal Relationships Juvenile fiction. Laboratory Animals Juvenile fiction. Detective and Mystery Fiction. Andrews, Ryan,. Zombert.