Out of Salem.
Out of Salem.
By
:
Schrieve, Hal.
Publication Date
:
2019
Subject Term
:
Gender-nonconforming youth -- Fiction.
Zombies -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Witches -- Fiction.
Werewolves -- Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Genre
:
Paranormal fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Horror fiction.
Summary
:
Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with Mrs. Dunnigan, an elderly witch and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to "monsters," and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed. Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781609809010
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Stephenville (WST) (Kindale) | YA Fic | YA Fiction | FIC SCH | Checked In |