After Stanley Nudelman purchases a creepy stuffed toy at the Widow Imavitch's yard sale, his life gets a little crazy. Stanley takes his harmless new toy to school and havoc ensues when it comes to life, bites Stanley's schoolmates and turns them into Zombies. It is up to Stanley and his friend Miranda to recapture Zombiekin and save the school, if they can manage to keep from being bitten in an Elementary School full of Zombies.

This was a very fast paced book with amusing and sometimes contradicting illustrations that make it quite comical to read. It is funny enough to keep it from being to scary for younger readers, yet would hold the interest of the older reader in the reccomended age range. ( )

Fourth-grader Stanley Nudelman is about as wimpy as they come. He's cowardly, shy, and spends most of his time hiding from the school bully, Knuckles Bruzkowski! Then Stanley stumbles upon the yard sale of his neighbor, Old Lady Imavitch, where he buys a mysterious stuffed animal. ( )