• Food
    • Recipes
    • Menus
  • Health
    • Diet & Nutrition
    • Empowerment
    • Family Health
    • Fitness & Exercise
    • Inspiration
    • Medical News
    • Parenting
    • Sexual Health
  • Money
    • Automotive
    • Dollars and Sense
    • News & Politics
    • Technology
    • Travel
    • Work
  • Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Home Decor
    • Maternity
    • Shopping
    • Trends
    • Shutterfly Living
  • Videos
  • Books
    • Bilingual Books
    • Book News & Features
    • Editor’s Note
    • Middle Grade Books
    • Picture Books
    • Young Adult Books
  • Life
    • Astrology
    • Entertainment
    • Love & Relationships
    • Opinions
    • Power Latina News
    • Papiverse
    • Viral Video Blog
    • Bilingual Plus
    • College Bound
    • Honor Roll
    • Resources
  • Español
  • Food
    • Recipes
    • Menus
  • Health
    • Diet & Nutrition
    • Empowerment
    • Family Health
    • Fitness & Exercise
    • Inspiration
    • Medical News
    • Parenting
    • Sexual Health
  • Money
    • Automotive
    • Dollars and Sense
    • News & Politics
    • Technology
    • Travel
    • Work
  • Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Home Decor
    • Maternity
    • Shopping
    • Trends
    • Shutterfly Living
  • Videos
  • Books
    • Bilingual Books
    • Book News & Features
    • Editor’s Note
    • Middle Grade Books
    • Picture Books
    • Young Adult Books
  • Life
    • Astrology
    • Entertainment
    • Love & Relationships
    • Opinions
    • Power Latina News
    • Papiverse
    • Viral Video Blog
    • Bilingual Plus
    • College Bound
    • Honor Roll
    • Resources
  • Español

Zombie Baseball Beatdown

Share Button
by Mamiverse Team | 22/10/2013
Zombie Baseball Beatdown-MainPhoto

Zombie Baseball Beatdown By Paolo Bacigalupi Little Brown · 2013 · 304 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-316-22078-1 Ages 10 to 13

The boys who read this—and its readers will be mostly boys—will love the frenetic action and high gross-out factor: puke jokes, a lagoon of cow manure, and snapping decapitated zombie cow heads. In these swiftly moving pages the three heroes—Indian-American Rabi, Mexican-American Miguel, and “All-American” boy Joe, negotiate both ordinary travails (such as a bully and his gang of goons) and the major disaster the title refers to. Rabi, the narrator, is great with baseball statistics but not much good with a bat, reaping the continual scorn of bully Sammy, whose father runs the local meatpacking plant. When that packing plant emits a much more awful odor than normal one day, Rabi, Miguel and Joe find out why: in trying to dope the cows into weighing more, the plant has inadvertently created a zombie cow strain that spreads easily to humans.

Read Related: You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens

Underneath the nonstop comic action, Bacigalupi has serious concerns on his mind: the cruelty of our immigration policy and tactics that deprive Miguel of his parents, aunt and uncle; the chemical alteration of our food supply (Upton Sinclair would be proud); and the inhumanity of corporate greed. Despite its sensationalistic content and hyped-up narrative style, this is a novel that begs to be read by adults as well as children, and to be discussed at length. Simply superb.

—Cooper Renner, retired librarian, El Paso Independent School District

← Want to Learn Spanish? Shut Up and Listen! Online Dating Safety Tips →

FILED UNDER: Books, Middle Grade Books     TAGGED WITH: Book Reviews, Children, Reading

MAS DE MAMIVERSE

Mamiverse
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

© 2019 Mamiverse All Rights Reserved

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use