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What’s this all about?

Walter Nutria, a teenage boy dedicated to sci-fi films, but definitely not dedicated to East Weston Northside High School! He’s been recruited to be a spaceship commander by . . .

Uxno, Snartmer, and Voo, aliens who look like pudgy middle-aged men in footie pajamas, and who are constantly at war with . . .

The Wotwots, rutabaga-shaped beatniks piloting the WSS Ferlinghetti, whose plans for galactic domination endanger the life of . . .

Yselle Meridian, also of East Weston, a cool, brainy girl who’s been renting videos on Walter’s card, and who tops off a cast of characters whose destinies are about to be changed forever by . . .

Space Mice from Galaxy Four!

Beatnik Rutabagas from Beyond the Stars is a chance to witness amazing battles, travel to strange and distant planets–and meet a giant talking thumb! Read this book now! You won’t regret it. Probably.

Winner of the Golden Duck / Eleanor Cameron Award for science fiction!


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The 2001 hardcover edition, published by Farrar Straus Giroux