The Reapers Are the Angels

Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.

For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption.

Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks.

"Alden Bell provides an astonishing twist on the southern gothic: like Flannery O'Connor with zombies." --Michael Gruber, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Air and Shadows

Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.86w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780805092431

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 146648 / Reapers Are the Angels


Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: Nutmeg Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/21/2010
Library Journal 10/15/2010 pg. 66
New York Times Book Review 08/07/2011 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 08/14/2011 pg. 26

About the Author

Alden Bell is a pseudonym for Joshua Gaylord, whose first novel, Hummingbirds, was released in Fall '09. He teaches at a New York City prep school and is an adjunct professor at The New School. He lives in New York City with his wife, the Edgar Award-winning mystery writer, Megan Abbott.