Rot & Ruin

Resource Information

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Label

Rot & Ruin

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Maberry

Title variation

Rot and Ruin

Creator

• trueMaberry, Jonathan

Subject

• Fiction
• trueFifteen-year-old boys
• trueImura, Benny (Fictitious character)
• Juvenile works
• trueKidnapping
• Occult fiction
• Paranormal fiction
• Paranormal fiction
• trueRationing
• trueStepbrothers
• trueSurvival
• Survival
• Survival -- Fiction
• Survival -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTeenage boys
• Young adult literature
• trueZombies
• Zombies
• Zombies -- Fiction
• Zombies -- Juvenile fiction
• Bounty hunters
• trueBounty hunters
• Bounty hunters -- Fiction
• Bounty hunters -- Juvenile fiction
• Brothers
• Brothers -- Fiction
• Brothers -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCalifornia

Genre

• Paranormal fiction
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Occult fiction
• Young adult literature

Language

eng

Summary

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter

Member of

• Rot & Ruin, bk. 1
• trueBenny Imura books
• Benny Imura, #1
• Rot & ruin ;, 01

Storyline

• trueAction-packed
• trueWorld-building

Tone

• trueBleak

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Award

• Gateway Readers Award (Missouri), 2013.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Teen category, 2013.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2016
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011

Awards note

Sequoyah High School Book Award Masterlist, 2013.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 780
• Ages 12 up

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• UG
• 6-8
• UG
• 6-8

LC call number

PZ7.M11164

LC item number

Ro 2010

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 8
• 12

NLM call number

Maberry, J.

Reading level

• 5
• 5.7
• 5.0
• 5.7

Series statement

• Rot & ruin
• Benny Imura

Series volume

• bk. 1
• #1

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts
• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

adolescent