This time around, her imagined competition with Tristan nearly costs her what matters most in her filmmaking-the joy of it-but a gentle reminder from her mother sets her back on the right track. Kate makes mistakes and claims them, expanding on the hard-won empathy she learned in the previous book. While the B-movie title is misleadingly campy, there are solid gold nuggets of insight here regarding the miscues, motivations, and minefields of seventh-grade group dynamics, all related with a broadly appealing, self-deprecating wit. Kate’s stalwart band of friends stands behind her, and she enlists the help of her spy-crazy little brother, Derek, to make movie magic and outwit the bullies. This time, however, she’s plagued by competition-a new boy named Tristan, who also enjoys making movies, has moved to town-and bullies Paul and Blake are sabotaging her auditions. Phillips.Readers who enjoyed following Kate through friendship drama and cinematic triumph in Night of the Zombie Chickens (BCCB 6/14) will be glad to find her planning her second film, Bride of Slug Man. Teen guys mightĪppreciate it as well because of the hijinks.-Donna L. Their own-except, perhaps, for the zombie filmmaking. Girls, will find Kate an appealing character facing problems much like On bad decisions that many teens face and finds friendships with girlsĮach of these dilemmas invites readers to consider how they wouldĭeal with similar issues in their own lives. The now-archetypal finding-friendship-at-the-reject-table, and you haveĪ novel that is wickedly fun and gently thematic. School musical Annie, the disappearance of a certain Cute Red Wig, and
Throw in an evil littleīrother (maybe misunderstood and underappreciated?), mom'sĪppearance at school on career day, a possibly philandering father, the To impress her new crowd, Alyssa bestows theĬhicken-poop nickname CrapKate on her once BFF.
Up with a killer ending for their film, Alyssa's friendship shifts For a year, she and bestįriend Alyssa, the nonzombie heroine of the film, have roped inĬlassmates and neighbors to costar as zombies. Midlife career change to organic chicken farmer by incorporating theĬhickens into her own passion: directing films. Seventh-grader Kate Walden makes the best of her mother's Kate Walden Directs: Night of the Zombie Chickens. Kate Walden Directs: Night of the Zombie Chickens." Retrieved from Kate Walden Directs: Night of the Zombie Chickens." The Free Library.
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