Anna and the Apocalypse

Name: Anna and the Apocalypse
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Katharine Turner
ISBN: 9781250229342

Author: Katharine Turner, Barry Waldo

Narrator: Fiona Hardingham

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners

Published: 10/23/2018

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Zombies, Media Tie-in, Humorous

Synopsis

School’s out for the end of the world.

Anna and the Apocalypse is a horror comedy about a teenager who faces down a zombie apocalypse with a little help from her friends.

Anna Shepherd is a straight-A student with a lot going on under the surface: she’s struggling with her mom’s death, total friend drama, and the fallout from wasting her time on a very attractive boy. She’s looking forward to skipping town after graduation—but then a zombie apocalypse majorly disrupts the holidays season. It’s going to be very hard to graduate high school without a brain.

To save the day, Anna, her friends, and her frenemies will have to journey straight to the heart of one of the most dangerous places ever known, a place famous for its horror, terror, and pain…high school.

This novel is inspired by the musical feature film, Anna and the Apocalypse!

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About Katharine Turner

Katharine Turner is a British writer who lives in Los Angeles, California. She loves reading books, watching movies, the otters at The Los Angeles Zoo, piña coladas and getting caught in the rain. She is the co-author of Anna and the Apocalypse.

About Barry Waldo

Barry Waldo started telling stories at a young age in rural Arkansas. He went from his first job at Showbiz Pizza Place to getting an MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School. After working at Disney, he led a team crafting the story for Mattel’s Monster High and worked with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to launch the bestselling Monster High book series by Lisi Harrison. He’s also worked with Shana and Ahmet Zappa to create the world of Star Darlings, and with will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.When Barry found himself on a rainy train ride from London to Scotland, listening to a young Scottish gent explain how he was developing a zombie Christmas musical, Anna and the Apocalypse was born. Barry lives in Scotland with his husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma

So the thing about this book is that it's a novelization of a movie. A British zombie movie. For teens. With singing. And jokes. And one that seems for all intents and purposes to be made up mostly of scenes in which brains get smashed. Here are some things that don't translate so well into books and......more

Goodreads review by kayla (kitay’s version) 🍄

i’m not sure why i thought a book based on the screenplay to a movie musical set during the zombie apocalypse at christmas time was going to be good. like...to be fair the movie is dumb (okay it’s a guilty pleasure) but the soundtrack is ridiculously catchy so i wanted to give this a go. there are s......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

This is definitely a book for fans of black humor. If that isn't your thing, and you're expecting straight-up horror, this is not for you. I personally loved it, and found myself trying to avoid laughing out loud as I read it at work. I wasn't completely in love with the ending, but the humor makes......more