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  So many of you have sent suggestions for the last few titles. Thank you! One of the words that kept popping up for the Z book was zombie! Whenever I read or hear that word, I get all shivery. I have learned that kids love to read scary books, as long as they’re not too scary… so I came up with The Zombie Zone. It was fun for me to write, and I hope it gave you pleasure to read … and a few goose bumps!

  Thank you, and happy reading!

  Sincerely,

  P.S. Please keep visiting my Web site at www.ronroy.com!

  Have you read every book

  in the series?

  See how it all began!

  Collect clues with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose

  in their exciting adventure,

  THE ABSENT AUTHOR

  Finally Dink got up and walked out.

  Josh and Ruth Rose were waiting for him.

  “What’s the matter?” Ruth Rose said. “You look sick!”

  “I am sick,” Dink mumbled. “I invited him here. It’s all my fault.”

  “What’s all your fault?” Josh asked.

  “This!” he said, thrusting the letter into Josh’s hands. “Wallis Wallace has been kidnapped!”

  Text copyright © 2005 by Ron Roy

  Illustrations copyright© 2005 by John Steven Gurney

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Roy, Ron.

  The zombie zone / by Ron Roy; illustrated by John Steven Gurney

  p. cm. — (A to Z mysteries) “A Stepping Stone Book.”

  SUMMARY: Reports of zombies and grave robbers alarm the people of a Louisiana swampland village, but Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink begin to suspect that the supernatural might not be the cause of the eerie occurrences.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-55016-3

  [1. Zombies—Fiction. 2. Cemeteries—Fiction. 3. Swamps—Fiction.

  4. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction. 5. Mystery and detective stories—Fiction.]

  I. Gurney, John, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Roy, Ron. A to Z mysteries.

  PZ7.R8139Zo 2005 [Fic]—dc22 2004004025

  RANDOM HOUSE and colophon and A TO Z MYSTERIES are registered trademarks and A STEPPING STONE BOOK and colophon and the A to Z Mysteries colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

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