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    Zach Lopez vs. the Unicorns of Doom
    Zach Lopez vs. the Unicorns of Doom
    Zach Lopez vs. the Unicorns of Doom
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    Zach Lopez vs. the Unicorns of Doom

    By Justina Ireland and Tyler Champion

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    Zach Lopez has just moved to Devils' Pass and is missing California already. When he meets Tiffany, Jeff, and Evie in his new school, they tell him the town isn't what it seems and that strange things happen there. Zach isn't buying it—until he sees a glimpse of a white horse with a horn and a mane full of glitter. Could it really be a unicorn? Soon, Zach finds that his new friends were telling him the truth—and more. They have to save the town from a brutal infestation of carnivorous unicorns before the whole town gets eaten.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateMay 15, 2020
    ISBN9781515887225
    Zach Lopez vs. the Unicorns of Doom
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    Justina Ireland

    Justina Ireland enjoys dark chocolate, dark humor, and is not too proud to admit that she’s still afraid of the dark. She lives with her husband, kid, and dog in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows. Visit her at JustinaIreland.com.

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      Zach Lopez vs. the Unicorns of Doom - Justina Ireland

      CHAPTER ONE

      The New Kid in Town

      Zach Lopez watched kids walk into Devils’ Pass Middle School and sighed.

      This is going to be the worst year of my life, he said, slouching in his seat.

      It won’t be that bad, his mother said, putting the car in park and smiling.

      Zach gaped at her. Was she serious? Mom, we just moved to the middle of nowhere, Minnesota, from Los Angeles, I’m starting a brand new school, and, oh, by the way, my mom is the principal. Zach crossed his arms. This is the worst.

      Ms. Lopez laughed and ruffled Zach’s hair. He hated when she did that. He smoothed his dark hair back into place and glared at her. She didn’t notice. Well, look on the bright side. I didn’t pack your lunch! she said. Ms. Lopez was terrible at any type of food preparation, something Zach and his younger sister Lisa always joked about. Their family ordered more pizza than anyone else he knew back in L.A. But he wasn’t laughing now.

      There was nothing funny about starting eighth grade at a new school.

      A bell rang, the sound coming from the far-off buildings, and Ms. Lopez startled. Oh, that’s the warning bell. I wanted to be here early, but it looks like that isn’t happening. We need to get inside before the final bell. You have your schedule and locker assignment?

      Yes, Zach said, climbing out of the car and closing the door.

      Ms. Lopez got out as well, locking the door and swinging her purse over her shoulder. Good. You can walk home after school if you don’t want to wait for me. Just make sure you don’t cut through the park.

      Zach frowned. The park?

      Yes, one of the teachers warned me that there’s a sinkhole in the back of the park. It’s fenced off, but she seemed to indicate that there’d been some mischief. Someone was bitten by some kind of animal there last week. It sounds like bad news, so you should probably avoid the park altogether. I don’t want you falling in with a bad crowd. Or getting bitten.

      Zach rolled his eyes. Ms. Lopez crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows, her Don’t Give Me Sass face. Zach raised his hands in surrender. OK! OK. I’ll stay out of the park.

      Good. Now give me a kiss, and get going before you’re late for your first day of school.

      Mooooooom!

      She tapped her cheek, and Zach sighed. He gave his mom a kiss on the cheek, shrugged on his backpack, and joined the crowd of kids heading into Devils’ Pass Middle School.

      CHAPTER TWO

      Something’s Fishy

      Devils’ Pass Middle School was like Zach’s last school. Except the buildings were made of brick instead of stucco, the gym smelled like tater tots because it was connected to the cafeteria by a hallway, and everyone was white with blond hair.

      Well, not everyone. But it did seem like a lot of the people had blond hair, and no one was brown like Zach. He wouldn’t have noticed it at all, but Brian, a guy in his homeroom, pointed it out. Is it weird being the only Mexican kid in the school? he asked.

      I’m not Mexican, I’m Puerto Rican, Zach said, but Brian had already gone back to playing on his phone. It should’ve been nothing, but for the rest of homeroom, Zach couldn’t help but notice that everyone else had pale skin. He felt like even more of an outsider.

      Later, as he walked to lunch, Zach’s mind began to race, tripping over thoughts of what he would be doing right now if he were still at home, back in L.A.

      It was two hours earlier there, so he’d probably be in second period. Last year, his second period class had been math, and he and his friend Seth had spent the year drawing a comic, passing a notebook back and forth and drawing a panel at a time. By the end of the year, they’d had a finished book: The Adventures of Math Boy, featuring a superhero with the power of math. It had been such a dork thing to do, but it made the class go by quickly.

      He wished he were back in L.A.

      He wished his mom hadn’t gotten such a great job in the middle of nowhere.

      But most of all, he wished his friends were here, so they could draw comics and talk about video games and do everything that wasn’t Zach standing alone and awkward in a cafeteria full of people he didn’t know.

      He got his tray, filled with tacos that looked nothing like L.A. tacos, and sat down at a table at the back of the cafeteria. No one sat with him, and he ate his lunch alone, doodling in his notebook. Zach liked to draw, even though he wasn’t very good. To distract himself, he drew pictures of palm trees and a beach with a mermaid sunning herself on a rock.

      "Mermaids don’t look like that.

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