The Enemy by Charlie Higson

No one is really sure what caused it, but parents in London suddenly began to get sick.  Not only sick, but as the illness continued, these parents turned on their children and began to hunt them.  Children are forced to join together, but can they really outwit the zombie parents and survive this deadly illness?

Content Notes:

This book contains bad language including deity swear words.  This book would probably be rated PG-13 for the language.  The violence is pretty grotesque (zombies!) but it isn’t exceptionally graphic.  This book also does not contain any boy/girl relationship issues.

 Teacher Notes:

I was pretty pumped because up until probably half-way through there wasn’t any bad language!  That doesn’t happen very often with books any more.  Then the language started.  It wasn’t horrible, but I would not recommend this book to younger 6^th grade readers.  The book is also written in shifting points of view, so if your reader has trouble keeping up with characters, this may not be the best book for him or her.  There were a couple of times I had to go back to previous chapters to re-read in order to keep up with who was doing what.