*Gold Medal Winner, Juvenile Fiction, 2015 Global Ebook Awards*

When these guys say school is hell ... they mean it.

Before the Zombie RiZing began, teachers were the scariest things in the classroom. But these days, Elizabeth Baker and her friends know what real monsters look like.

Holed up in High School Name, they face a new battle every day, from vicious fellow survivors and hungry zombies to their ever-dwindling food supplies.

Then there's Sonny, whose farts could be smelt all the way from the Moon. If the apocalypse was a martial art, this crew...

The galaxy is on the brink of war and only four dysfunctional, hormone-driven teenagers from Earth stand in its way. God help us all.

Cooper Simpson can't believe his luck when an otherwise crappy day ends with an invitation to join the International Galactic Council. As Earth's first leader on the interstellar body, he figures it's got to be better than the pressures of home and troubles at school.
Unfortunately, it doesn't him take long to realise space can also suck the big one. The other races look down on humanity, danger and death lurk around every moon, and then...

"I guess it was inevitable - the end of the world we know - the end of humanity.

Finding out early was a gift, surviving impact night was a miracle, living to tell the tale, well, that was the price I will pay, forever.

There's no going back now."


Award winning author*, Matt Pike, takes you on a journey to the end of the world and beyond, as told through the eyes of an Australian teenager, who records his experiences day by day in a survival diary. From the social chaos in suburban Adelaide in the lead-up, a night of total global catastrophe...

I'm not Elizabeth any more. That was my scared name. I'm Beth, but not the normal spelling. I'm B E A T H - like death, but a better option.

Beath and her band of fellow survivors would give anything for a normal day of school. Even a maths test would be better than what's on the lesson plan these days - zombies, zombies and more zombies.

Ever since the RiZing began, there's been one traumatic event after another - not least of all the apocalyptic farts that trail in Sonny's wake. But if the gang thinks the worst is over, well #wrong.

Their fellow...

Welcome to hell on Earth.

Who would have thought Beath and her friends would ever be sad to say goodbye to school? But when it's been your home away from home since the Zombie RiZing, long hours in the science lab suddenly don't seem so bad. Eventually, however, as with all of history's greatest battles*, survival comes down to food, or more accurately the lack of it, which forces the teenage survivors and their sole teacher to head out into the wider world. In theory, it's a pretty easy journey down the road to the city's shopping centre.

But in reality, well ... let's...

School's out - and that's not a good thing

After spending the first part of the Zombie RiZing holed up in their school, Beath and her friends have finally ventured back into the outside world - and to say things have deteriorated would be an understatement.

Fortunately, salvation is at hand, in the form of the Black Oaks Shopping Centre and its mother lode of food, clothes and weapons. Or at least it would be if the bad guys hadn't gotten there first. Specifically, one bad guy - Karl Dreeks, a villain of the highest order who's turning apocalypse lemons into lemonade in the...

A trip to the shops can be a real nightmare...

Hungry zombies, angry giants and flying monsters are just another day in the Zombie RiZing. But with Beath and her friends now being hunted by a crazed warlock with megalomania on his mind, things are getting desperate.

On the positive side, more and more of the gang are getting their own superpowers, as good magic rises to combat the evil. But on the bad side they're hopelessly outnumbered in the face off against Karl Dreeks, a villain whose mind control can seemingly extend even to humans.

It's a case of game on and...