Crash Landing (Sci-Fi Junior High Series #2)

by Scott Seegert, John Martin (Illustrator)

Overview

Middle school in space! An alien dog! A mad scientist! Hundreds of illustrations! Sci-Fi Junior High is galactically good! James Patterson presents a hilarious space adventure featuring an average human kid getting into a universe of trouble.

Kelvin is the new kid at Sci-Fi Junior High -- a floating space station filled with alien kids form across the universe. And he arrived just in time for the annual school dance: The Galactic Get Down!

Kelvin is desperate to take luminous Luna (her species literally glows), but now that his secret about not being a Mega Supergenius is out, Kelvin doesn't have a shot. He has to think of a way to become super cool so everyone forgets he lied about his average intelligence . . . cue mad scientist Erik Failenheimer's escape from his asteroid prison, an army of Pinions (any similarities to the MinionsTM is purely coincidental), and a battle to save Sci-Fi Junior High from imminent doom. Let's dance!

"Saving the universe has never been so much fun!" -- Gordon Korman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 39 Clues and Masterminds on Sci-Fi Junior High.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316315203
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	02/20/2018
Series:	Sci-Fi Junior High Series , #2
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	550L (what's this?)
File size:	121 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Scott Seegert is the author of the Vordak the Incomprehensible series. He lives in Farmington, MI with his wife, Margie, and their three children.

John Martin is an illustrator, graphic artist, and website designer. He is the illustrator for the Vordak the Incomprehensible series. He lives in Farmington Hills, MI, with his wife, Mary, and their three children.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Sci-Fi Junior High: Crash Landing:

"Corny jokes, wacky high jinks, a supervillain bunny, and engaging illustrations keep the pages turning.... Wacky out-of-this-world fun."—Kirkus Reviews

"Black and white illustrations...give Martin and Seegert's work the accessibility of a beginner's graphic novel and provide an extra punch to the fart jokes and wordplay this story thrives on. ... Overall, this is a funny take on middle school that strikes a chord closer to home than its intergalactic setting."—Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books

"More riotous high jinks on the high frontier."—Booklist

Praise for Sci-Fi Junior High:


A 2017 Parents' Choice Award® winner!

"A diverse crew of extraterrestrial life forms [are] amusingly brought to life in Martin's comic panels.... Echoes of comic books, Star Wars, and 1950s sci-fi classics resound."—Kirkus Reviews

"Easily digestible segments, [and] sheaves of cartoons...are interspersed throughout the text, boosting the comedic action into even higher orbit. A crowd pleaser."
—Booklist

"A fun [...] extraterrestrial adventure.... Punchy black-and-white spot illustrations and comics sequences appear throughout, playing up the slapstick humor."—Publisher's Weekly

"It's a classic trope executed so funnily that it manages to seem fresh. Amusing black and white illustrations pepper the text. There's plenty here to warrant another outing with Kelvin in a sequel."—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"SCI-FI JUNIOR HIGH is packed with not just galactic-scale laughs, but also genuine middle-school appeal. Saving the universe has never been so much fun!"—Gordon Korman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Masterminds, Swindle and The 39 Clues

"The Final Frontier of funny! Attention all librarians: order extra copies of Sci-Fi Junior High as the waiting list will be long, persistent and potentially riotous. The funny is strong with this one."
—Jake Marcionette, New York Times bestselling author of the Just Jake series

"A sci-fi book for young readers... exciting and interesting enough to hold their attention."—Library Connection

From the Publisher

2017-10-28
Kelvin Klosmo has to learn to dance, get the girl, and make a new name for himself (Larva Boy, Drifting Dufus, and Under-a-Minute Moron have got to go). But he still needs to find time to save the universe (again).Life on a space station 329 quadrillion miles from Earth sounds exciting, but for Kelvin, it is mostly terrifying, humiliating, and downright irritating. Because even if one of your friends lives in a fishbowl, another has three pairs of eyes, and yet another has a giant brain that shrinks when he is overwhelmed, it turns out junior high school is pretty much the same wherever you go. Shrink rays, giant robots, and disco-dancing parents are just part of a normal day on the space station. But when Kelvin's father reveals that he is storing a superweapon in his lab, only Kelvin and his friends see the potential for disaster. Corny jokes, wacky high jinks, a supervillain bunny, and engaging illustrations keep the pages turning, while Kelvin's upbeat attitude in the face of mortification, mayhem, and mystery meat are endearing. Diversity is limited to the extraterrestrial variety. Martin and Seegert's frequent spot illustrations and comic-strip panels serve up such audience favorites as a farting, tentacled alien, another whose grin is held in place by orthodontic headgear, and a principal who is a giant slug.Wacky out-of-this-world fun. (Graphic/science fiction hybrid. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews