My Rotten Life, David Lubar
My Rotten Life, David Lubar
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My Rotten Life

Author: David Lubar

Narrator: Matthew Brown, Kathleen McInerney

Unabridged: 3 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2009


Synopsis

Ten-year-old Nathan Abercrombie is having a really bad day. First, Shawna Lanchester, the prettiest girl in his class, doesn't invite him to her party. Then he gets picked last in gym class. Things couldn't get any worse…until he gets doused with an experimental serum that turns him into a half-dead zombie!

Nathan soon discovers that being half dead isn't all bad. He doesn't need any sleep, so he can stay up all night and play games online. He doesn't feel any pain, so there's no need to worry about Rodney the bully anymore. Still, Nathan would rather be human. Will he find a cure? Or will Nathan be half-dead forever?

Fans of David Lubar's popular Weenies short story collections—which have sold more than one million copies—will love My Rotten Life, the first of a series of hilariously rotten adventures starring Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie.

About David Lubar

David Lubar created a sensation with his debut novel, Hidden Talents, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Thousands of kids and educators across the country have voted Hidden Talents onto over twenty state lists. David is also the author of True Talents, the sequel to Hidden Talents; Flip, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror selection; many short story collections in the Weenies and Teeny Weenies series; and the Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie series. Lubar grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, and he has also lived in New Brunswick, Edison and Piscataway, NJ, and Sacramento, CA. Besides writing, he has also worked as a video game programmer and designer. He now lives in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

About Matthew Brown

Matthew Brown has voiceover experience in many different areas, including commercials (national and regional), audiobooks, ESL, feature film ADR/looping and animated projects both feature film and television. His narration credits include Matthew Dicks’s Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend and Mary E. Pearson’s Fox series. He received a 2011 AudioFile Best Audiobook Award for Young Adult & Fantasy for his reading of The Adoration of Jenna Fox.

About Kathleen McInerney

Kathleen McInerney has narrated numerous audiobooks by bestselling authors such as Emily Giffin, Danielle Steel, Jeffrey Stepakoff, Mary Kay Andrews, and Linda Castillo. Her narration of Just One Day by Gayle Forman won an AudioFile Earphones Award. In reviewing Mary Kay Andrew’s Ladies’ Night, AudioFile magazine said, “McInerney makes each of the characters distinct and recognizable and gives each the perfect voice, accent, and vocal mannerisms. Most enjoyable and well performed.” She has appeared onstage in New York and around the United States in both classical and contemporary theater. Her credits also include television commercials, daytime drama, radio plays, and animation voice-overs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marlee on July 31, 2014

My son, who is 10, found this book to be amazing. We read it together. He also found it quite funny. I found it started out really slowly. If my son hadn't been enjoying it, I wouldn't have finished it. However, though it was somewhat silly, I ended up enjoying the book as well. My son is excited to......more

Goodreads review by Brian on August 03, 2011

MY ROTTEN LIFE: NATHAN ABERCROMBIE, ACCIDENTAL ZOMBIE By David Lubar Yet another book I picked up at ALA11 in New Orleans. They were giving away copies of this already released book. That trip is going to be memorable for years to come for so many reasons but most of all the fact that meet so many cool......more

Goodreads review by Ingrid on July 30, 2017

This was a cute story about a boy who is accidentally turned into a zombie. I liked the three main characters. I also liked how the author spoke about the various cliques at school and how Nathan, the main character dealt with them. I'm looking forward to reading the second book in the series!......more

Goodreads review by Mouse on September 11, 2019

My 9 year old son rated it 5 stars as he seemed to really enjoy it. He said he wants to read more books in the series and recommends it for kids his age. He thought it was funny, not scary or gross and the main character had cool abilities almost like a superhero.......more

Goodreads review by Yoyomaus on April 27, 2021

Zum Inhalt: Der 12-jährige Nathan ist nicht der absolute Oberloser der Schule - er gehört zu den sogenannten Zweitbesten. Denen, die niemand sieht. Normalerweise zumindest. Doch nachdem Nathan von dem beliebtesten Mädchen des Jahrgangs fertiggemacht wurde, als letzter in die Sportmannschaft gewählt u......more