Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: You’re Probably Wondering Why There’s a Dead Body in the Bathroom . . .

Chapter 1: That Weird Bigelow Girl

Chapter 2: Popsicles and Vanilla

Chapter 3: The Reason I Hate Swans

Chapter 4: Why I Floss on a Daily Basis

Chapter 5: I’d Better Get Used to Creepy Guys Who Want to Kill Me

Chapter 6: Things You Should Never Touch in a Subway Tunnel and Other Lessons

Chapter 7: Killing Time

Chapter 8: If You’ve Ever Wanted to Know a Good Place to Meet Zombies . . .

Chapter 9: The City That Really Never Sleeps

Chapter 10: It’s Time to Get My Zeke On

Chapter 11: I Get Called to the Principal’s Office . . . and It’s a Good Thing

Chapter 12: How to Set a Trap

Chapter 13: I Meet the One and Only Cornelius Blackwell

Chapter 14: Careful What You Wish For

Chapter 15: Big Zombies, Little Women

Chapter 16: Geek Mythology

Chapter 17: Book of Secrets

Chapter 18: Party Crasher

Chapter 19: The Wildest Ride in Manhattan

Chapter 20: I Create a Fake Identity

Chapter 21: The Mayor of Dead City

Chapter 22: Consequences

Chapter 23: You’re Probably (Still) Wondering Why There’s a Dead Body in the Bathroom

Chapter 24: Reckoning

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