Displaying 1 of 1 2013 Format: Book Author: Johnson, Rebecca L. Title: Zombie makers : true stories of nature's undead / Rebecca L. Johnson. Publisher, Date: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, ©2013. Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. Summary: Are zombies real? Scientists know this for sure: dead people do not come back to live and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers -- including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp -- and their victims. Target Audience Note: Middle School. Ages 9-13. Series: Exceptional science titles for intermediate grades Exceptional science titles for intermediate grades. Subjects: Parasites -- Juvenile literature. Host-parasite relationships -- Juvenile literature. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47) and index. Accelerated Reader 5.3. Accelerated Reader AR Middle Grades 5.3 1.0 quiz: 153400. Reading Counts RC 5.3 4.0 58808. A Junior Library Guild Selection. Contents: Introduction: Are they real? -- A fungus among us -- The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out -- Can we eat the babysitter? -- Going viral -- Try me, you'll like me -- Afterword: zombie makers: why and how. LCCN: 2011046181 ISBN: 9780761386339 0761386335 Other Number: 767255383 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 337267 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: j 578.65 Johnson Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
