GOOD THING SHE'S ALREADY DEAD.
WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER.
LIFE'S DEEP WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
Think middle school is tough? Try being dead. Constantly reapplying blush to look alive in class, the diet of... (ew, you know), keeping the million-year-old secret that we exist so humans don’t freak...
But worse? Knowing that Ryan Ross, the cutest guy ever, could never like me, a dead girl.
So when Kaitlyn Ashley, the internet's meanest super star, wanted to turn my crush into epic social media humiliation, everything I did was totally necessary––like dragging a human way down to the dead’s most dangerous city, nearly getting arrested looking for that dumb ring, and almost getting everyone eaten (like a million times). But if anyone asks I'll blame it on my best friend Di because, let's be honest, she's the whole reason we got into this mess in the first place.
HER FAULT
OK, fine. Maybe the seance was a little bit my fault. But the rats, and that disgusting spider and what happened to Zoe, and the house, and, well, you know... Gramma –– that was definitely not my fault, no matter what Liv says.
And besides, even if it were my fault -- which, I repeat, it is NOT -- what does she expect? I'm only human.
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THIS IS MY FAMILY...
Before you ask -- yes, we're all dead. No, we didn't die together. In fact, as humans, we didn't even know each other -- at least I don't think so. Waking up dead erases your memory, so I guess we'll never know for sure. But honestly, I'd like to believe I didn't know Zoe in a past life.
This is my awful 16 year old sister Zoe. Her real name is 'Beulah.' But don't call her that (totally call her that!) or she'll bury you! Did I mention she's awful?
This is my very annoying 8 year-old brother, Ben. He might actually be cute—if he weren't so annoying! Oh, and all these rats running around are his fault. He's obsessed with them. Ew.
This is my dad, Ron. He loves eating more than anyone I know. We're not sure how he died, but the claw-shaped scar on his chest screams, "I lost a fight with a grizzly bear over a cheeseburger" —at least, that’s what I think. He also loves to yell, usually about wasting food.
This is my super sweet mom, Rita. The only person she ever gets mad at is Gramma (for making fun of her cooking, and, well, and pretty much everything else she says). She's also an expert at sewing body parts back together.
Gramma's been dead for 147 years, so she pretty much knows everything. She’s also got plenty of replacement parts—eyes, knees, fingers—and if you look closely, her thumbs don’t even match. But she doesn’t care. As she says, it’s not the parts that matter; it’s the whole package.
DEAD GIVEAWAY
There's plenty of awful things about being dead. For one, I’ll never grow up—which means I’ll never have boobs (don’t even get me started). But even worse, I'll always have to about stress about body parts falling off... in school! If you're anything like Di -- human -- all this dead stuff is probably pretty hard to believe. That's why, I'm giving you this SNEAK PEEK AT CHAPTER ONE so you can see for yourself how being dead is completely ruining my life.
THE FROG REVIEWS
Check out what these kids (and adults!) had to say about Chapter 1—and, even better, see how many “Jack the Frogs” they gave it! 🐸✨ (You don’t know Jack—I mean that in the best way. 🙂 But trust me, when you meet him, you’re going to love him.)
