An eerie, savage novel. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens BooksAmerican Horror Story meets the dark comedy of Kafkas The Metamorphosis as Cat searches for a way to escape her high school. A tale of family, love, tragedy, and masksthe ones others make for us, and the ones we make for ourselves. Katzenjammer will haunt fans of Chelsea Pitchers This Lie Will Kill You and E. Lockharts We Were Liars.Cat lives in her high school. She never leaves, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs. But now things are changing. The hallways contract and expand along with the schools breathing, and the showers in the bathroom run a bloody red. Cats best friend is slowly turning into cardboard, and instead of a face, Cat has a cat mask made of her own hardened flesh.Cat doesnt remember why she is trapped in her school or why half of themCat includedare slowly transforming. Escaping has always been the one impossibility in her schools upside-down world. But to save herself from the eventual self-destruction all the students face, Cat must find the way out. And to do that, shell have to remember what put her there in the first place.Using chapters alternating between the past and the present, acclaimed author Francesca Zappia weaves a spine-tingling, suspenseful, and haunting story about tragedy and the power of memories. Fans of Marieke Nijkamps This Is Where It Ends and Karen McManuss One of Us Is Lying will lose themselves in the pages of this novelor maybe in the treacherous hallways of the school. Includes interior illustrations from the author.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 9th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 14 years.

There are 304 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Francesca Zappia lives in central Indiana. When she is not writing, she's drawing her characters, reading, or playing video games. She is also the author of Made You Up and Eliza Mirk's favorite, The Children of Hypnos, a biweekly serial novel posted on Tumblr and Wattpad. www. francescazappia. com