Spill Zone Book 1
Brand: First Second
Categories: Books, Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction



Grade level: 10 - 12
Reading age: 15 - 18 years
ISBN-13: 978-1250158727
ISBN-10: 1250158729
Publisher: First Second
Print length: 240 pages
Publication date: July 10, 2018
Book 1 of 2: Spill Zone
Dimensions: 6.55 x 0.6 x 10 inches
Lexile measure: GN300L
Language: English
subtitle: Paperback – July 10, 2018
author: Visit Amazon's Scott Westerfeld Page search results Scott Westerfeld Alex Puvilland
review: Editorial Reviews Review “A little dark, a little twisted, and completely enthralling.” ―Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles and Heartless "As frightening as Spill Zone can be, though, its greatest asset is its muscle-tensing suspense. Reading it feels like binge-watching a great cable series, complete with the same feeling of despair you get when you finish the final episode and realize you’ve got a long time to wait for the next season." ―The New York Times “Puvilland, an animator for DreamWorks, has a rough, kinetic style that brings to life the rough, kinetic world of Spill Zone .” ― Los Angeles Review of Books "If Katniss Everdeen’s your gal, you’re going to want to meet Addison Merritt." ― Entertainment Weekly "Amazing." ―io9 "Expect some stunning sci-fi spectacle when Addison ventures into the Spill Zone." ―A.V. Club "Westerfeld...establishes several compelling mysteries in this series opener, and Puvilland captures the haunting surreality of the Spill Zonethrough an unearthly pastel/neon palette that oozes a sense of wrongness every moment Addison spends there." ― Publishers Weekly , starred review " This unnerving, gripping title―Westerfeld’s first original graphic novel―is bound to entice older comics fans, especially those interested in darker sci-fi and nuanced characterization." ― School Library Journal , starred review " Westerfeld handles the spooky business of the infected town magnificently, spiking the eerie and inexplicable with moments of genuine horror, while always keeping the emotional tensions of his highly accessible teenage protagonist at the center." ― Booklist , starred review "Full-color illustrations are appropriately wild, jagged, and threatening. Readers will be demanding the next installment as they close this one." ― Kirkus "It’s clear from the movie-ready visual images that the illustrator is primarily an anima- tor, and the panels are a worthy match for the clever, memorable text."― Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books " This first entry in a creepy, addictively suspenseful graphic novel series makes for compulsive reading." ― Horn Book About the Author Scott Westerfeld is a software designer, a composer of music for modern dance, and the author of novels such as The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds . He lives in New York City and Sydney, Australia. Alex Puvilland was born in France where he grew up reading his father's comic books. Looking for a life of adventure full of loose women and danger, he moved to California at the age of 22, convinced he would become a millionaire within the month. Eighteen years later he lives in Los Angeles, with his ridiculously talented wife and two extraordinary children, Leo and Adrien. He works for Dreamworks Animation, does comics whenever he has a moment, but is still not a millionaire… Alex co-illustrated Prince of Persia , the graphic novel' and Templar .