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Zombie Road
  • Published: 30 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761352898
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $14.99

Zombie Road

(This book is Dead Scary)





Do you dare to be scared?

Twelve-year-old Ace Walker has one rule: never stay out after sunset.

Because when the sun goes down, the dead rise – fast, hungry and hunting for brains.

But when his best friend Callie collapses with appendicitis, Ace has one shot to save her: steal a truck and race across the desert to the nearest hospital before nightfall.

A flat tyre, an undead bike gang and an exploding petrol station? Just the beginning.

Because on Zombie Road, one wrong turn means death – or worse.

  • Published: 30 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761352898
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $14.99

About the author

Steve Worland

Steve Worland has worked extensively in film and television in Australia and the USA. He wrote the screenplay for the smash hit Australian family film Paper Planes with director Robert Connolly, won the ACCTA award for best original screenplay for the same film, and adapted the movie into a bestselling novel for young readers. Steve has written screenplays for Working Title, Icon Productions and The Jim Henson Company, worked in script development for James Cameron's Lightstorm and wrote Fox Searchlight's Bootmen, which won five ACCTA awards. Steve also wrote the action-comedy telemovie Hard Knox for New Line Television, episodes of the Southern Star action series Big Sky and the Saturn award-winning Farscape. He is the author of the action-adventure novels Velocity, Combustion and Quick as well as the charity joke book The Bloke-a-saurus, which he wrote with his brother, Gus.

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