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Authors: Kirsty Mckay
Huge thanks to my agent Veronique Baxter for her passion, wisdom, and generally being one cool chick.
A big fat zombie smackeroo to Siobhán McGowan and all the marvellous team at Scholastic, for embracing and championing the book so mightily, and helping Bobby find her home in the USA once more. Many thanks, folks.
To my patient and wonderful editors Imogen Cooper and Rachel Leyshon, and to Barry Cunningham, Rachel Hickman, and all at Chicken House UK for their boundless enthusiasm.
What would I do without my Gripers? My fab fellow writers: Elaine Dimopoulos, Jean Stehle, Sonia Miller, Jane Kohuth, and Laura Woollett. Thank you so much for supporting and inspiring this random Brit through all the revisions and beyond.
A special
holla
goes out to Emma Sear for not letting a little thing like the Atlantic Ocean get in the way, and to my fly girl Jennifer Withers for all the horror I'm ever going to need.
To Keith and Didi McKay, for being right, goddamn it. Love you muchly.
Finally, to John Mawer and Xanthe, for giving me the best reason in the world to survive the zombie apocalypse.
KIRSTY MCKAY, born in the UK, now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband and their young daughter.
Undead
is her debut novel; she is currently finishing its sequel,
Unfed
. Visit her website at
www.kirstymckay.com
and follow her on Twitter @kirkybean.
Text copyright © 2012 by Kirsty McKay
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by Chicken House, 2 Palmer Street, Frome, Somerset BA11 1DS.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McKay, Kirsty.
Undead / Kirsty McKay. â 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Summary: On a school trip to snowbound Scotland, several students become infected and turn into hungry zombies, leaving a small band of survivors to take refuge in the school bus.
ISBN 978-0-545-38188-8
[1. Zombies â Fiction. 2. Survival â Fiction. 3. Horror stories â Fiction. 4. Scotland â Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M47865748Un 2012
[Fic]âdc23
20110449431
First American edition, September 2012
The display type was set in Alisal Bold.
Cover design by Phil Falco
eISBN 978-0-545-47346-0
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