Great for new middle grade readers'full of hi-jinks' Resource ReviewsMeet Dethbert JonesDethbert Jones is your average ten-year-old - only he lives on the planet Crank with his pet chicken-snail, Precious, and his robot best friend Andi Social. When he and Andi join the Space Cadets, a Scouts-like organization, they are totally smooshed at the prospect of going to Space Camp where they'll learn to pilot a real shuttlecraft and disintegrate weapons of mass destruction. From the planet CrankBlamtastic! To earn his cosmic correspondent badge, Dethbert begins writing to an earthling - and boy, does he have a lot to write about! A horrible little sisterBetween questions about Earth food, culture, and activities, Dethbert recounts his experiences attempting to avoid his horrible little sister, impress his animal-obsessed crush, and fly a space shuttle. An elusive first crushMisadventures - from hairy ankles to crash landings - abound, but Dethbert's curiosity and enthusiasm can't be crushed, not by anything in this galaxy, anyway!