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The Cellar

by A. J. Whitten
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Meredith Willis is suspicious of Adrien, the new guy next door. When she dares to sneak a look into the windows of his house, she sees something in the cellar that makes her believe that Adrien might be more than just a creep—he may be an actual monster.

But her sister, Heather, doesn't share Meredith's repulsion. Heather believes Adrien is the only guy who really understands her. In fact, she may be falling in love with him. When Adrien and Heather are cast as the leads in the school production of Romeo and Juliet, to Heather, it feels like fate. To Meredith, it feels like a bad omen. But if she tries to tear the couple apart, she could end up in the last place she'd ever want to be: the cellar. Can Meredith convince her sister that she's dating the living dead before it's too late for both of them?

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  • Release date

    April 11, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780547532356

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780547532356
      • File size: 431 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.3
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      April 1, 2011

      A zombie teenage romance loosely associated with Romeo and Juliet, written under a pseudonym by a romance-writer and her teenage daughter. (Their previous attempt, 2009's The Well, had Hamlet connections.) The tall, gorgeous stranger who moves in next door manages to bring 16-year-old Heather out of a depression following her father's death in a car accident she caused. Though all the girls are swooning over mysterious Adrien St. Germaine, he zeroes in on Heather, volunteering to play Romeo opposite her in the school's production. Only Heather's 17-year-old sister Meredith is suspicious of him and his decrepit "mother" Marie. Are her visions of worms and beetles behind Adrien's ever-present sunglasses and glimpses of coffins and corpses in the St. Germaine cellar real, or are they just symptoms of her deteriorating eyesight and grief over her father? Is she also imagining that Sam, Heather's old boyfriend, likes her the way she likes him? The horror tale is told in alternating voices: Meredith's teenage commentary and ruminations and a third-person narration filtering the thoughts of Heather (as she falls under Adrien's spell) and Adrien (as his determination to possess Heather forever triggers a zombie war, starting in his creepy cellar and culminating on the set of Romeo and Juliet). The disgusting living dead meet suburban high-school students in this B-movie of a book. (Paranormal romance. 12 & up)

      (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

    • School Library Journal

      July 1, 2011

      Gr 7 Up-Heather and Meredith are traumatized when their father dies in a car accident, and Heather feels responsible as the accident was her fault. While they are struggling to heal and carry on in the aftermath, their emotionally absent mother, a real-estate agent, rents the house next door to a mother and son who happen to be zombies. Meredith senses something off about their new neighbors immediately and starts having disturbing dreams. The son, Adrien, takes a liking to Heather (or, rather, senses that he can exploit her pain). When they are cast as Romeo and Juliet in the school play, Adrien and Heather start to become very close. Meredith is nonplussed by this, and rightfully so. Things go south from there. The characters are one-dimensional, the dialogue is forced, and the situations are cliched.-Kristina Weber, Bernotas Middle School, Crystal Lake, IL

      Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.3
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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