Michael K. just started fifth grade at a new school. As if that wasnt hard enough, the kids he seems to have made friends with apparently arent kids at all. They are aliens. Real aliens, who have invaded our planet disguised as school children and a hamster. They have a mission to complete: to convince 3,400,001 kids to BE SPHDZ in order to save the world! But with a hamster as their leader, "kids" who talk like walking advertisements, and Michael K. as their first convert, will the SPHDZ be able to keep their cover and pull off their assignment? Several websites mentioned in the book will be livegiving readers a full interactive experience.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is part of a book series called Spaceheadz .

This book is aimed at children at US 2nd grade-5th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 7-10 years.

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster .

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.