Infestation
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A contemporary take on the classic creature-feature genre. INFESTATION is a thrilling, fast-paced story that will leave your skin crawling.When Andy Greenwood is sent to the Reclamation School for Boys he expects the lousy food, mean drill sergeant instructors, and brutal bullies. What he doesn't expect is an infestation of weirdly large and aggressive ants, or the itching welts all over the staff and students. Even odder, Andy learns that kids never leave the school when they're supposed to. They just seem to get stuck there indefinitely.Following a ground-splitting earthquake, however, things quickly go from bad to horrifying. The school is overrun by monstrous bugs, and Andy himself comes face to face with mutant ants the size of humans, equipped with pinchers that can cut steel. Trapped in a cinderblock institutional building in the New Mexico desert, miles from civilization, Andy must figure out a way to save himself and the surviving boys from this nightmare.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nonfiction writer/illustrator Bradley (Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepiest) brings a love of science fiction and insects to this hyperbolic adventure, a callback to the monster films of the 1950s, in which juvenile delinquents fight for their lives against giant mutated ants. Twelve-year-old Andy Greenwood has just settled into life at the Reclamation School for Boys in the New Mexico desert when he learns that it used to be a secret testing facility, still full of forgotten chemicals. An earthquake allows hundreds of oversize insects to overrun the school, with Andy part of a small group of survivors. With the help of a visiting entomologist, they launch an explosive campaign against the ants in order to escape. Bradley wastes no time in throwing his characters into the action, nor does he sugarcoat the consequences. The pseudoscience needed to bring his monsters to life and combat them has verisimilitude without bogging down in details. Some plot points and characters are swept to the side in the need to deliver a streamlined story, but the excitement never falters. Ages 8 12.
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