[How it Works](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/how-it-works/) [Bookshop](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/books/bindery/) [Publishing](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/publishing/) [Team](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/team/) [Contact](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/contact/) Log in or Sign up This Is Not a Test Courtney Summers Save to Your Books Buy Direct [Paperback](https://indiepubs-us-refresh.myshopify.com/cart?isbn=9781967967124&publishername=bindery-books) [eBook](https://indiepubs-us-refresh.myshopify.com/cart?isbn=9781967967131&publishername=bindery-books) [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/10458/9781967967124) [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1967967121?tag=thisstoryai04-20) 100% of affiliate revenue supports Boundless Press Consideration Editorial & Design Pre-order Published [See the journey](/content/book/AyGrKpdqtjg3gjkQbWdv/index.html) **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY ADAM MACDONALD AND STARRING OLIVIA HOLT** _The Breakfast Club_ meets _28 Days Later_ in this revised and expanded edition of Courtney Summers's cult classic about a traumatized young woman forced to survive the zombie apocalypse. Sloane Price knows there are worse things than the end of the world, so when the zombie apocalypse happens, the opportunity to escape her violent home life offers no relief. She's already lost the one thing that matters most—her sister—and now seems like the perfect time to give up. But when she inadvertently ends up barricaded in her high school with five other teens, their desperate and volatile bids for survival force a series of impossible decisions. 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