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Escape from the Drooling Octopod!
Contributor(s): West, Robert (Author)

ISBN: 0310714273 ISBN-13: 9780310714279
Publisher: Zonderkidz

OUR PRICE: $8.54

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2008
Annotation: Introducing the Star-Fighters of Murphy Street: three unlikely young heroes bound for some of the zaniest escapades you can imagine. Add one spaceship-shaped treehouse capable of taking them most anywhere in the universe. Hop in and blast off with them for fantastic outer space adventures in this quirky, funny, past-paced new trilogy by Robert West. There's a Spaceship in My Tree! Newly arrived from California, thirteen-year-old Beamer MacIntyre feels like an alien in this weird Midwestern town. Weirdest of all is the spaceship-shaped tree house in his yard. Surprises await Beamer and his two new friends, Ghoulie and Scilla, when they climb inside and blast off to a universe full of adventure?including a surefire way to make the school bully stop harassing Ghoulie (provided it doesn?t backfire!). Attack of the Spider Bots Taking a shortcut home from school, the Star-Fighters are chased by a horrible one-eyed creature into a cavern that houses an entire miniature world. Everything is animated?cars, trucks, moon, clouds, stars?but no one is at the controls. Who would create such a thing and then abandon it? The Star-Fighters? search leads them on a wild adventure?and the discovery of a terrible secret. There's a Drooling Octopod Next Door! The Star-Fighters? new friend Alana may not be pretty, but she's very nice. On a visit to the spaceship/tree house, she is swept into a Star-Fighters adventure, courtesy of Scilla's handsome but spoiled-rotten step-brother. Thanks to him, Alana sees herself for the first time as ugly. But who is the real beauty and who is the beast?

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Religious - Christian - Fantasy & Science Fiction

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2008007362

Age Level: 9-12

Grade Level: 4-7

Series: Star-Fighters of Murphy Street

Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.52" W x 8.54" L (0.34 lbs) 144 pages

Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian

Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Review Citations: Christian Retailing 07/07/2008 pg. 67

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 123362
Reading Level: 5.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 5.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Know Your Star-FightersBeamer: California transplant to a weird Midwestern town. Feels like he's living on another planet. Scilla: the gangly tomboy next door. Ghoulie: the class nerd. Add one spaceship-shaped tree house capable of taking them most anywhere in the universe. Hop in and blast off for fantastic outer space adventures in Star-Fighters of Murphy Street--the quirky, funny, fast-paced new trilogy by Robert West.In Episode Three, The Star-Fighters, under attack from pink goblins and Molgotha, a drooling giant octopod, must save a girl locked in a "pink palace." In a wacky adventure which takes them to a pink planet, through subterranean civilizations and into a modern day Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, the Star-Fighters discover a dark secret and find beauty in the most unlikely beasts.

Contributor Bio(s): West, Robert: - Rob West doesn't just write about tree ships. He sometimes retreats to write in the flying ship he built in his own back yard--it's the only place he can escape his wife, three sons (and their cronies), two dogs, three cats, two doves . . . and, when she chooses to drop in out of the sky, a duck!

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