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| Category: Fiction:Young Adult |
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| About the Book | |
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Only child Susan fantasizes that she’s an abandoned Frankenstein-like creation, when her Mom Margie becomes a zombie from hardship and bereavement. Susan and her friend Terry fear that Margie will be taken over by a lifeless doll, if Susan cannot figure out how to bring Margie back. In her quest to rescue Margie, Susan becomes more entrenched in her elderly neighbors’ lives to create a supportive family, that is, when she is not pissing them off like Mrs. Sosa, an older woman who does not want to be adopted by Susan. At home, when making her Frankenstein monster make-up, more extreme, Margie hardly glances at her, and at school and in the neighborhood, it’s the opposite—too many notice Susan! In the process of Susan’s struggles, she and Terry fortuitously find a lonely stray cat, and the apartment Manager’s keys to the rooftop. There, they decide to make a secret garden and cat hideaway, while they plot to rescue Margie. Many others are warming up to Susan’s ideas, but Margie is not. One day Susan makes a startling discovery about her real family. Fed up with rejection, she explodes and goes on a moonlit rampage worthy of Frankenstein’s Monster.
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| About the Author | |
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Kate Warpeha is a mad scientist and inventor living in Chicago. She was educated at Loyola University in Chicago in Biology, Chemistry and English, and further at University of Illinois where she earned a PhD in Biological Sciences in the Lab for Molecular Biology. She has published over 30 papers and has one patent. She is an experienced editor of creative and scientific writing.
Lisa Noble is a graphic designer, illustrator, children’s book author and self-publisher. She and Kate started a conversation online 16 years ago and have been friends ever since. This is their first publishing collaboration. Lisa lives in Nelson, New Zealand with her son Zao, the inspiration for her children’s books. |