Mr. Mosquito lives on Mercury, and he hates it there! The daytime temperature is more than eight hundred degrees, and his flip-flops always melt on the sidewalk. At night it gets so cold that his toothpaste is frozen solid. Imagine his delight when he looks through his telescope and sees Planet Earth, where mice play happily in comfortable weather. So he decides to invade the Earth and take it over!

Mr. Mosquito clips his dirty fingernails and zaps them with a powerful ray. Suddenly, his fingernails mutate into massive mosquitoes.

"Mutant Mosquitoes!" he cries. "It is time to conquer Earth. Follow me!"

In this wildly imaginative and highly appealing story, Dav Pilkey and Martin Ontiveros once again create a witty tale of danger and heroism, and at the same time they celebrate the joys of friendship. Here is an action-packed story that will engage even the most reluctant reader.

 

This book is part of a book series called Ricky Ricotta .

There are 128 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2000 by Scholastic US .

Dav Pilkey is the talented author of this hugely popular series. He created the first Captain Underpants stories as comic books when he was still at elementary school!