help my mom is a zombie

She thought dealing with school was tough-until her mom started eating brains.

Twelve-year-old Sarah Simmons always knew her mom was a little... different. But things have gotten way stranger since last Tuesday, when she caught her mom sleepwalking into the neighbor's yard, grunting weirdly, and eyeing the cat with way too much interest.

It wasn't until she found her mom gnawing on a cold raw hamburger from the fridge and moaning, "Braaains," that she knew something was seriously wrong.

Her mom is a zombie. A real zombie.

Turns out, her mom had been researching some ancient herbs for a local community garden project and accidentally stumbled upon a potion that reanimated the dead. Now she's not just gardening on weekends-she's drooling over the neighbors, who suddenly seem... tasty. And things only get worse when Sarah realizes her mom is contagious. Slowly but surely, other parents in their suburban neighborhood start to show the same signs: drooling, blank stares, and a strange taste for brains.

Sarah teams up with her best friend, Ollie (who's been a monster-movie buff since he was six), to find a cure. The two friends dive into Ollie's extensive horror movie collection, studying zombie behavior and lore, all while fending off curious neighbors and keeping her mom's... condition... a secret from the rest of the family. After a few missteps-like accidentally giving her mom coffee that turns her even faster-Sarah learns that the key to reversing the curse may lie in the original recipe... but there's one ingredient missing, and it's buried in a graveyard at midnight.