Resistance is Your Prime Directive Have you ever experienced a sensation of missing time? Have you ever found a metallic implant somewhere in your body? It's likely that you're a victim of alien abduction, and you don't even know it. Aliens are among us. While the true intentions of these mysterious intruders from outer space are unknown, there's no doubt that their actions are nefarious. It's your right - your civic responsibility - to learn the skills necessary to protect yourself, your loved ones and ultimately your planet. Aliens want to whisk you away in the night to perform terrifying experiments on you. Isn't it time you learn how use your MP3 player to defend yourself from their paralyzing powers? Shouldn't you know how to evade the pursuit of a flying saucer? Wouldn't you sleep better at night knowing some proven hand-to-hand combat techniques guaranteed to stop your extraterrestrial foe in its tracks? Make no mistake - our world is under attack and this handbook may be the only thing standing between the human race and total annihilation. Read it and join the resistance.

From the kid-like brain of Ted Scheu, one of the world's funniest poets for children, here comes a house-full of dreams, screams, groans, and giggles. Family life has never been more humorously or honestly portrayed in poems than in I Froze My Mother and other Seriously Funny Family Poems. In this collection of rhyming poems, children ages 7 to 11 will find answers to nagging childhood questions and problems. Now they can instantly freeze their mothers. Learn new words from their dad. Maybe trade their brothers. Or help their sisters share their secrets. The fresh, honest voices lurking within these poems combine with eye-popping Peter Lourie photographs to endlessly tickle gigglebones. Kids will zoom through this collection before their mother even thaws. I Froze My Mother is one of the funniest, freshest collections of poems for kids to tumble down the stairs in years. Give it a test giggle today. I Froze My Mother is a hilarious companion to Ted Scheu's other funny poetry collections, I Tickled My Teachers and I Threw My Brother Out'all from Young Poet's Press. I Froze My Mother inspired celebrated children's author and poet J. Patrick Lewis to write, ?Ted Scheu's ?seriously funny family poems? gleefully demonstrate that he is seriously off his noodle-?high praise for a children's poet. I Froze My Mother takes up where Jack Prelutsky left off...somewhere in outer space.'

Introduce kids to the planets and solar system in this fractured fairy tale retelling of the classic The Three Little Pigs. Parents and children alike will adore this out-of-this-world story, which is set in outer space! GREEP BOINK MEEP! The three little aliens are happily settling into their new homes when the Big Bad Robot flies in to crack and smack and whack their houses down! A chase across the solar system follows in this humorous and visually stunning book from Margaret McNamara (How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?) and Mark Fearing (The Book that Eats People). The endpapers even include a labeled diagram of all the planets.

Tanya Huff—acclaimed author of the Blood Series—begins her celebrated Confederation series that will launch readers into a future where Humans are not the most evolved species... Good thing they can take orders. Brought into the multi-species Confederation, Humans earn their place along the Taykan and the Krai by acting as military guardians of the Elder Races, who have risen above societal aggression and violence. When Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr and her platoon are dragged from some well-deserved R&R to play honor guard for a diplomatic mission to the non-Confederation planet of the Silsviss, Torin suspects that something is about to go wrong. You don't make staff sergeant in the CMC without a well-developed sense of paranoia. Justified paranoia when word reaches them that the enemy has been spotted in this sector of space. The diplomatic mission becomes a race to recruit the Silsviss into the Confederation before the enemy returns, claims the reptilian warriors as their own, and turns them loose on the Confederation. One battle-weary platoon has to step up to stop the slaughter.