Pat Brosseau

A plague has killed almost everyone and is killing more every day, and the only ones immune to it are a group of hybrid animal-children. After his father's death, Gus, a nine-year-old boy-deer, desperately accepts the help offered by a big man who says he will take Gus to the Preserve, a safe place for the hybrid children.

"The year is 2421. Awkward and shy, Pepper buries herself in the universe of the classic fictional superhero Supernova to avoid dealing with the perils of the 9th grade. But then fate intervenes when Pepper encounters a strange cat named Mister McKittens and stumbles into a volatile science experiment run by a sinister substitute teacher named Doctor Killian."--