The Perilous Case of the Zombie Potion

Mae and Clinton book 5.

When a stranger from the future tells Clinton’s timid summer camp tentmate to deliver a zombie or else, Clinton knows he has to help. Together, seventh graders Clinton and Mae take Sam on a Galactic Academy of Science mission to find out the truth about zombies. Time-traveling from ancient China to Italy, Belgium, Haiti, New Guinea and Arizona, the three kids explore the edge of death, trying to sort out myth from science. Finally, on the shores of a lake in Cameroon, Sam has to make a dangerous decision.

Be warned: This book contains rotting bodies, headless bodies, twitching bodies, and lots of zombies. If zombies give you nightmares, do not look inside.  The science and scientists in chapters 3 – 11 are based on scientific history and present-day discoveries, but the parasites in chapter 12 come from the author’s imagination. Also, hand-held time travel devices have not been invented yet.