"After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg"--

"Jack teams up with the evil King Wretch in order to convince his friends to stay with him instead of going in search of others who may have survived the monster apocalypse"--

"Surviving their first winter after the Monster Apocalypse was no easy feat, yet Jack and his buddies waste no time springing to action against some of the nastiest, most evil monsters around. When Jack discovers his Louisville Slicer has new, otherworldly powers, he's thrown into epic training to find out what kind of destruction the blade can wield. But between fighting off zombies, fleeing from strange, glowy Vine-Thingies erupting from the ground,...

Personal issues flare in tight quarters when the kids get trapped in June's house by a hoard of zombies.

The kids create devices called "zom-b-gone" torches to keep the zombies away, combining the name "zombie" and "be gone" into one phrase.

The kids must tune their radio to pick up a message from other survivors and must listen all night to make sure they don't miss the message.

The kidshear the voice of other living humans on a radio in a zombie-infested building.

When Jack sees his friends arguing, he believes a new quest will pull the team together, so he takes Quint, June, and Dirk to the mall...

Jack travels into the subway tunnels under his town to find the creature who has been putting visions into Jack's mind.

The King Wretch gives nightmares to the four kids.