Ravi's Iowa town has always just been a place to live. Where people go to work at the local meat-packing plant, people play on local baseball teams and where bullies can make life hard but not unbearable. You know, just life. Well, it's just life until strange, REALLY strange things start happening. Things like people they know becoming UNDEAD and it seems like that meat-packing plant is NOT what it seems. Can Ravi and his friends figure out what's up before a Zombie Apocalypse is inevitable?
So, my two six year old sons chose this audiobook off the library shelf because: baseball and zombies. Here's the thing, though, that's not really what it is. It's WAY more about the meat industry, about racism and most especially ICE and the idea of deportation and family separation for being undocumented. NOT what I thought I was going to get with this book, not at all. I like the idea of standing up to bullies and all, but there is SO much bullying and racist epithets (towards both the Indian Ravi and his best friend who is from Mexico) that I felt like we were listening to just a lot of racist talk and I didn't like my kids hearing that, honestly. They enjoyed the zombie scenes and although I kept asking them if they wanted to keep listening (I was bored and didn't like the direction of the book), they did like it. So there's that. I know that nearly seven year olds are a bit young for the intended audience but I still wasn't thrilled. Meh.
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