Zombie makers : true stories of nature's undead

Summary: Are zombies real? Scientists know this for sure: dead people do not come back to live and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers -- including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp -- and their victims.

Item details

ISBN: 9780761386339
ISBN: 0761386335
ISBN: 9781467701259
ISBN: 1467701254
Physical Description: print
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, ©2013.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Are they real? -- A fungus among us -- The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out -- Can we eat the babysitter? -- Going viral -- Try me, you'll like me -- Afterword: zombie makers: why and how.
Target Audience Note:	Middle School. Ages 9-13.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader 5.3. Accelerated Reader AR Middle Grades 5.3 1.0 quiz: 153400. Reading Counts RC 5.3 4.0 58808.
Awards Note:	A Junior Library Guild Selection.