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Max Brallier

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in Belmont, MA, The United States

September 08, 1983

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MAX BRALLIER is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty books for children and adults, including the middle-grade monster-zombie series The Last Kids on Earth.

Under the pen name Jack Chabert, he is the author and creator of the Eerie Elementary series and authored the New York Times bestselling Poptropica: Vol 1: Mystery of the Map.

Max is also the creator of Galactic Hot Dogs, an action-packed sci-fi middle-grade series from Simon & Schuster.

Max's books for adults, include the bestselling series Can YOU Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? He's contributed to numerous short story collections.

In the olden days, Max was a Game Designer for the virtual world Poptropica and worked in the St. Martin's Press marketing d ...more

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	The Last Kids on Earth (Last Kids on Earth, #1) by Max Brallier (Goodreads Author), Douglas Holgate (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 14,421 ratings — published 2015 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade (Last Kids on Earth, #2) by Max Brallier (Goodreads Author), Douglas Holgate (Illustrations) 4.41 avg rating — 3,949 ratings — published 2016 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King (Last Kids on Earth, #3) by Max Brallier (Goodreads Author), Douglas Holgate (Illustrator) 4.44 avg rating — 2,818 ratings — published 2017 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Kids on Earth and the Cosmic Beyond (Last Kids on Earth, #4) by Max Brallier (Goodreads Author), Douglas Holgate 4.52 avg rating — 2,065 ratings — published 2018 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? 3.76 avg rating — 1,947 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade (Last Kids on Earth #5) by Max Brallier (Goodreads Author), Douglas Holgate 4.56 avg rating — 1,372 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Kids on Earth: June's Wild Flight 4.56 avg rating — 749 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road (Last Kids on Earth, #6) by Max Brallier (Goodreads Author), Douglas Holgate (Illustrator) 4.54 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmoe's Wiener Getaway (Galactic Hot Dogs, #1) by Max Brallier (Goodreads Author), Rachel Maguire (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations), Nichole Kelley (Illustrations) 4.06 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 2015 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories by Max Brallier (Goodreads Author), Letizia Rubegni (Illustrations) 4.12 avg rating — 306 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Last Kids on Earth (8 books)
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“But like I tell him, that doesn’t explain the feeling in my gut. He tells me the feeling in my gut is probably just gas and I sock him on the arm.”
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“Something was covering the windows—wrapping around the bus. A monster hand.”
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“Now, I realize in terms of, like, all-time ultimate heroic quests, “writing a book” doesn’t exactly rank up there with Frodo carrying the ring to Mount Doom, but whatever.”
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