Rise of ZomBert (The Zombert Chronicles)

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Author(s)

Kara LaReau

Co-Authors / Illustrators

Ryan Andrews

Publisher

Candlewick

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Release Date

July 14, 2020

ISBN

978-1536201062

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Could Bert really be a zombie cat? Two friends put their brains together to find out in a wry new mystery series.

While helping her best friend, Danny, film his latest horror flick, Mellie discovers a scraggly cat behind a dumpster outside the YummCo Foods factory. Mellie names the stray Bert and hides him in her room, knowing her parents won’t let her keep him. But soon Bert has decapitated all her stuffed animals, and before long he is leaving the headless corpses of birds and mice as gifts for her. Danny is convinced the cat is a zombie, living on the brains of his victims. But is that what is really going on? Award-winning author Kara LaReau lets loose a fresh and sharply funny new mystery series, with an irresistible touch of the macabre. Fans of creepy stories and animal lovers alike will devour this fast-moving first episode in one gulp.

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THE RISE OF ZOMBERT by KARA LaREAU illustrated by RYAN ANDREWS Reid Lawler, Book Reviewer

March 26, 2026 (Updated: June 08, 2026)

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Spoiler The Rise Of Zombert The Rise of Zombert is about a cat that escaped from a Lab, then two kids (Mellie and her best friend Danny) find him in a garbage can, then one of the kids decides to keep the cat and hide him from her parents, but she spends all of her money on cat food but then she realizes he only eats live animals heads. The general age group is 8-12 years old.

I liked how they changed from one character's perspective to the other character's perspective between chapters. All the characters in the book help to move the book forward.

If you're a new reader to the book, I would recommend reading the whole series because this is book one of three. I would recommend this book to people from ages 8 to 12 and if you like mystery type books.