Piggy: The Cure: An AFK Book

by Terrance Crawford, Dan Widdowson (Illustrator)

Overview

Dive into terrifying world of PIGGY in the second original illustrated novel based on the fan-favorite video game!

There is a mystery to be solved, a cure to be found, and a horde of Infected to escape!Welcome to the bone chilling, pulse-pounding world of PIGGY, the survival-horror game that will keep you up at night. With the Infected hot on their heels and growing in number, a small band of survivors must come together and try to stop their island from being overrun. But is there really a cure for whatever is turning people into mindless monsters? Or are they too late to save anyone at all?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338848137
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/2023
Series:	Piggy
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	160,102
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	970L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Terrance Crawford is a humor and pop culture writer from Detroit, Michigan, who lives in New York, New York.

Editorial Reviews

2023-06-08
The virus that started turning nearly everyone into zombielike monsters in Infected (2023) rages on.

This novel is based on a video game, and a video game has rules. The main characters, all anthropomorphic animals except for protagonist Ben, must fight monsters wherever they go—in a school, in a grocery store, in a laboratory—as if they’re progressing from level to level. They even use the same weapons almost every time: a Taser, a barbell, a glowing rod filled with chemicals. The monsters are enormous animals who look like football mascots. The characters are such skilled fighters that the battles are almost comforting—readers can sit back and wait for the giant boars to be knocked out. Even the black-and-white illustrations are predictable: Animal heads are circles; buildings have perfectly straight lines. Just as the tale is at its most repetitive, though, the rules suddenly change. Readers may know that the narrative can’t continue if the author kills off the main characters, but they may start to wonder if the author knows that. Crawford, it turns out, is not a cruel writer, and the book has the happiest ending a zombie story will allow. There are even a few plot contrivances to make sure every character is completely safe. Ben is drawn with thick black curly hair and skin the white of the page.

A perfect book for readers who don’t like their dystopian stories too dystopian. (Fiction. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews