{"product_id":"zombie-baseball-beatdown-9780316220798","title":"Zombie Baseball Beatdown","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this inventive, fast-paced novel, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi takes on hard-hitting themes--from food safety to racism and immigration--and creates a zany, grand-slam adventure that will get kids thinking about where their food comes from.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The zombie apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a \u003ci\u003ereally big \u003c\/i\u003estink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters  The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy corporation's plot to look the other way as tainted meat is sold to thousands all over the country. With no grownups left they can trust, Rabi and his friends will have to grab their bats to protect themselves (and a few of their enemies) if they want to stay alive...and maybe even save the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaolo Bacigalupi \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTool of War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShip Breaker\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, Michael L. Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the Edgar Awards nominee \u003ci\u003eThe Doubt Factory;\u003c\/i\u003e a novel for younger readers, \u003ci\u003eZombie Baseball Beatdown;\u003c\/i\u003e and two bestselling adult novels for adults, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Knife \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Windup Girl. \u003c\/i\u003eHis first work of collected short fiction was \u003ci\u003ePump Six and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Tangled Lands\u003c\/i\u003e with Tobias S. Buckell. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, he lives in western Colorado with his wife and son. The author invites you to visit his website at windupstories.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641974264082,"sku":"9780316220798","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ea81fb26-f03c-406d-a5b9-be514ece30a9.jpg?v=1733048564","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zombie-baseball-beatdown-9780316220798","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}