Spaceheadz
No. of pages 176
Published: 2011
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This book is part of a book series called Spaceheadz .
There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster Ltd .
Jon Scieszka is best known for his bestselling picture books, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and The Stinky Cheese Man . He is also the founder of guysread. com and a champion force behind guyslisten. com, and was the first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature. He lives in Brooklyn. Sue Ganz-Schmitt lives in a rural mountain community near Los Angeles, California, with her two daughters and husband. She is a NASA Social alumna and proud member of the Planetary Society. Shane Prigmore is a two-time Annie Award winner for his design of the films Coraline and The Croods , and is currently the vice president of creative affairs at Disney Television Animation. He resides in Los Angeles, California. Jon Scieszka is the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in the USA, named by the Library of Congress. He is the author of some of the best known and funniest books written for children and is the creator of the Trucktown series. Jon is a former school teacher and an avid promoter of literacy - particularly for boys. His website www. guyssread. com focuses on his national campaign. Jon lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY. Francesco Sedita studied writing at the Gallatin School of New York University. While at Gallatin, he was a Writing Fellow for Saturday Night Live and upon graduation he wrote and directed a show that ran Off-Off-Broadway for 5 years. Francesco is currently the Creative Director at Scholastic USA and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Shane Prigmore is currently a development and story artist at Dreamworks Feature Animation and he was a principle character designer on the stop motion feature CORALINE. Shane lives in California.
This book is in the following series:
"Michael's first day in fifth grade is not going well. A new school is bad enough, but the teacher has partnered him with two extremely weird kids. Bob and Jennifer tell Michael that they are Spaceheadz from another planet and that they need his help to save the world. They explain that Earth is in danger of being turned off, depriving the interstellar civilizations of our tasty TV and radio waves. Led by Major Fluffy, the class hamster and mission commander, they must recruit 3.14 million (+1) Earthling brainwaves to join in one giant SPHDZ wave to keep the planet online. However, Agent Umber of the secretive Anti-Alien Agency is on their trail. Umber, the most inept spy since Maxwell Smart, hopes that Michael can lead him to the ETs. Michael wants to save the Earth--but does that mean helping the Spaceheadz or turning them in? As in Scieskza's "Time Warp Trio" series (Viking), comically twisted contemporary cultural references abound. The young aliens speak primarily in TV advertising slogans, which fit remarkably--and hilariously--into the dialogue. Real commercial products, from George Foreman grills to Charmin(t) toilet tissue, are put to exotic extraterrestrial uses. The intriguing book design includes chapter headings in English and SPHDZ characters, occasional white-on-black pages, and SPHDZ "stickers" scattered throughout the text. The black-and-white cartoon illustrations are often integrated into the text layout, giving the book a graphic-novel feel. Four creative, well-designed websites contribute important information to the story. Science-fiction fans with a taste for off-the-wall humor will be eager to join the SPHDZ movement." School Library Journal, September 2010
