Read The Zombie Zone-a to z 26 Online
Authors: Ron Roy,John Steven Gurney
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The Zombie Zone-a to z 26 (6 page)
About seven years ago I had an idea for a mystery about an author who disappears. I decided to call the book
The Absent Author.
Since then, I have written 25 more mysteries for kids. And now, with
The Zombie Zone
, the series is complete. What a wonderful time I have had dreaming up plots and mysteries and crimes to keep my readers entertained!
No series can be written without a lot of people getting involved. I would like to thank all the people at Random House who supported my writing and my ideas. But most of all, I am grateful to you, my readers, for choosing my books to read. Thank you also for your letters, e-mails, and suggestions over the years.
So many of you have sent suggestions for the last few titles. Thank you! One of the words that kept popping up for the Z book was
zombie!
Whenever I read or hear that word, I get all shivery. I have learned that kids love to read scary books, as long as they’re not too scary… so I came up with
The Zombie Zone.
It was fun for me to write, and I hope it gave you pleasure to read … and a few goose bumps!
Thank you, and happy reading!
Sincerely,
P.S. Please keep visiting my Web site at
www.ronroy.com
!
Have you read every book
in the
series?
See how it all began
!
Collect clues with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose
in their exciting adventure
,
THE ABSENT AUTHOR
Finally Dink got up and walked out.
Josh and Ruth Rose were waiting for him.
“What’s the matter?” Ruth Rose said. “You look sick!”
“I
am
sick,” Dink mumbled. “I invited him here. It’s all my fault.”
“What’s all your fault?” Josh asked.
“This!” he said, thrusting the letter into Josh’s hands. “Wallis Wallace has been
kidnapped!”
Text copyright © 2005 by Ron Roy
Illustrations copyright© 2005 by John Steven Gurney
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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www.ronroy.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roy, Ron.
The zombie zone / by Ron Roy; illustrated by John Steven Gurney
p. cm. — (A to Z mysteries) “A Stepping Stone Book.”
SUMMARY
: Reports of zombies and grave robbers alarm the people of a Louisiana swampland village, but Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink begin to suspect that the supernatural might not be the cause of the eerie occurrences.
eISBN: 978-0-307-55016-3
[1. Zombies—Fiction. 2. Cemeteries—Fiction. 3. Swamps—Fiction.
4. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction. 5. Mystery and detective stories—Fiction.]
I. Gurney, John, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Roy, Ron. A to Z mysteries.
PZ7.R8139Zo 2005 [Fic]—dc22 2004004025
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