Holden Montgomery

As far as substitute teachers go, Norman Elle is a first. Being a zombie has its share of obstacles, and between managing classroom experiments and hiding his secret, surviving a regular school day proves to be much more difficult than he expected.

Carson Griggs and Mike Cather thought breaking into the school library at night would be easy: Grab the answers to a test, prove their friends wrong, and call it a win. But a month ago, Jake Wei vanished in that very library—and the teachers’ frantic warnings to stay away suddenly make sense.

A routine school newspaper interview spirals out of control when one reporter accuses a beloved teacher of being an environmental fraud.