Max Brallier: The monster apocalypse hit town average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house which hes armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Zombies and Winged Wretches and Vine Thingies and especially not for the eerily intelligent monster known only as Blarg. So Jack builds a team: his dorky best friend Quint; the reformed middle school bully Dirk; Jacks loyal pet monster Rover; and the fiercest girl Jack knows June. With their help Jack is going to slay Blarg achieve the ultimate Feat of Apocalyptic Success and be average no longer!