In his fiction debut--and the start of a new series--celebrated
illustrator K.G. Campbell brings a touch of Tim Burton to this
singularly strange and wonderful story about a lonely boy whose life is
about to get a whole lot more complicated when a zombie follows him
home.
August DuPont has spent his whole life inside a dilapidated house with
his aunt Hydrangea. His lonely existence ends abruptly with the arrival
of an invitation to meet an aunt--and cousins--he didn't even know
existed. When Aunt Orchid suggests that August attend school with his
cousins, it's a dream come true. But August has scarcely begun to
celebrate his reversal of fortune when he is confronted by a small
problem on his way home. So begins an adventure filled with a wild
child, a zombie, a fabled white alligator, and an unimaginable family
secret.