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APEX, N.C. (WTVD) Imagine waking up in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.
In a new youth novel called Once Bitten, for sale on Amazon, that s what happens to 12-year-old Tucker Graham.
Set in the author s hometown of Apex, the book is on Amazon s top 100 list for kid s sci-fi.
The author, fifth-grade teacher Chris Gilbert, is using the book as a way to encourage his students to read and learn.
The book s cover has a picture of a water tower that has the Town of Apex s slogan The Peak of Good Living painted on it.
But the word good is scrawled out and replaced with the word no since during a zombie attack there is a lot of no living .