This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition with Please Remain Calm [Paperback]

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The definitive, 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. As the days creep by and the dead close in, Sloane must confront everything she thought she knew about life, death, survival, and sacrifice and—once and for all—make a choice.

 Joined together for the first time in this special “director’s cut” edition,This Is Not a Testand its novella sequelPlease Remain Calmexplore the forces that tether us to life—and to each other—in our darkest times.

“Beautiful, bleak . . . [This is Not a Test] turns the concept of the walking dead into a haunting and thoughtful metaphor.”—The New York Times

“This Is Not a Testbrought me to tears, caused me to gasp in shock in public places, and almost put a stop to my heart . . . Summers’ voice is raw with emotion, and utterly right for the impending zombie apocalypse.”—Nova Ren Suma, #1New York Timesblã%