Novels
Mars, Maraming Zombie! (Look, Mars! More Zombies!)
ONE YEAR AFTER THE RAID ON THE BLUE ZONE, MARS, BEY, AND LOLA VICKY ARE STILL WAITING IN LINE FOR AID.
Life has become even more difficult as the government continues to hunt those who assisted the Master Raider. Along with trading valuable items and surviving daily struggles in the Black Zone, the threat of increasing zombies looms. But now, it’s not just the government and the undead they must face. Will Mars and his group ever reach the Green Zone?
Ang Nawawalang Barangay (The Vanishing Village)
Fans (yours truly included) of Brigido “Bree” Macaspac are sure to be delighted by the return of Barangay Talong Punay’s intrepid, redoubtable investigator as she looks into a spate of mysterious disappearances in Malabon and elsewhere. Bree’s dogged pursuit of the truth puts her on a collision course with uncooperative cops, petty government officials, power-mongering elites, manhandling thugs, and religious fanatics. Darkly comic, sharply observed, perfectly pitched to capture the living language of our times, Chuckberry J. Pascual’s Ang Nawawalang Barangay explores the politics of despair and disempowerment, the dark allure of religion and social media, and the necessity of resisting the angels when they whisper, “Swalla, sa wala tayo nagmula, at sa wala rin babalik.” – Caroline S. Hau, Kyoto University
Mars, May Zombie! (Look, Mars! Zombies!)
It is 2028, eight years after the zombie apocalypse has taken over the world. Marcelo “Mars” Manapat is one of the survivors, and he is running out of toilet paper. Together with his neat freak of a grandmother Vicky, and his sassy best friend Billie, a self-confessed Beyonce stan, he has gotten used to navigating life in different zombie-infested Red Zones. Until one day, he hatches a plan to get into the nearest zombie-free Blue Zone and discovers a secret that may even be worse than flesh-eating monsters!
Winner, Kids’ Choice Award, 8th National Children’s Book Awards