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The Last Kids on Earth
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Overview
The Last Kids on Earth—a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Texas Bluebonnet Award, which is determined by the popular vote of grade school students throughout Texas—is a post-apocalypse graphic novel for young readers, filled with illustrations, humor, friendship, and zombie survival. The story is written by Max Brallier and drawn by Douglas Holgate, and was originally published in 2015, but has since gone on to become a seven-book series; this is the first book, and the second is The Last Kids on Earth and The Zombie Parade. It has been adapted into a Netflix series of the same name, and has also received tremendous acclaim within pop culture in the form of toys and collectible figurines. This guide uses the 2015 Viking Press edition.
Plot Summary
The story begins mid-apocalypse. The narrator and protagonist, 13-year-old Jack Sullivan, is living in a quasi-paradise treehouse fortress in Wakefield, with seemingly unlimited junk food, weapons, video games, and comic books—despite the dangerous chaos outside his window. Jack is a foster child who never had a close relationship with his current family—the Robinsons—since they abandoned him at the onset of the zombie mutations.
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