With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

The trucks of Trucktown create their own annual day of giving thanks.

Carbon dioxide is out of control on Earth, and the fate of humankind rests in the paws of four experimental, untested Animal Astronauts (AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug) who are seeking another habitable planet; first destination is the Plant Planet which at first looks perfect, except that the abundant plant life can think for itself--and it thinks that it really does not like the AstroNuts.

All the favorite truckery rhymes are here, from "Peter Peter payload eater" to "Little Dan Dumper", all the way to "Pop! Blows the diesel."

The campaign to save the earth from being turned off is going well, but Michael K. must enlist fellow fifth-graders Venus and TJ to help hide the SPHDZ from Agent Umber, especially when they become involved in a school play.

Presents a collection of three stories from Trucktown, previously published separately.

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...

163 PAGES ILLUS. $14.99. ILLUS: SHANE PRIGMORE FIRST DAY IN A NEW SCHOOL, IN A NEW TOWN, WITH NEW KIDS. CAN MICHAEL K.'S LIFE GET ANY WEIRDER? YES, IT CAN, MUCH MUCH WEIRDER. DN