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Hey Everyone! I would like to thank Courtney Summers and Raincoast books for the privilege of being apart of the This Is Not A Test Blog Tour! I really did love this book from the beginning to end since now I have been liking more zombie type books lately. Here is my interview with Courtney Summers!! 1. How did you come up with the idea for This is Not a Test?   Courtney S: I've always been a fan of zombies and I always knew I'd write a zombie book one day, so when the time came for me and my editor to decide what my fourth book would be about, I submitted two zombie related ideas to her. The pitch for THIS IS NOT A TEST was basically, "Teens stuck in a high school during the zombie apocalypse." She liked its potential, so she gave me the go ahead. As I was developing the idea, I thought a lot about the zombie movies I watch and enjoy and one thing I noticed is survival is usually hardwired into the main character from the get-go and then I started to wonder...

Title: This Is Not A Test Author: Courtney Summers Pages: 336 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin  Expected Publication: June 19, 2012  Summary: (Goodreads) It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids...