Last Day of School

By Aevar Thor Benediktsson

It’s October 31st. Halloween.

The school’s walls are covered with decorations intended to scare and send a shiver down your spine. In the distance, an unearthly howl can be heard. There’s half of a PE teacher on the floor and from around the corner comes the sound of a limping horde of zombies. What on earth is happening? And how are the kids who haven’t already become monsters going to escape?

Last Day of School is a horror story that readers won’t be able to put down. The story was originally in the format of a scary Halloween calendar that Icelandic children of all ages devoured but now appears in book form – longer and more horrific than before – with illustrations by Ari H.G. Yates.

The Last Day of School project received the IBBY Spring Award, the Reykjanesbær Education Committee’s Encouragement Award and was nominated for the Parents’s Award of the Home & School Movement.

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About the author

Aevar Thor Benediktsson is an Icelandic actor and author of more than 30 books, most known for his bestselling Your Very Own Series, where the reader takes an active role in shaping the storyline. Benediktsson has won several awards for his books, including the Icelandic Children’s Book Award and The Bookseller’s Award. He is also an engaged promoter of reading and takes inspiration from the gaming world to attract young people to reading. For this, he has been nominated for the ALMA award twice and awarded by the Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education.