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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2011 by JRS Worldwide LLC

Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Shane Prigmore

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Scieszka, Jon.

SPHDZ book #3! / by Jon Scieszka; illustrated by Shane Prigmore; swivel action by Casey Scieszka; 10 points of articulation by Steven Weinberg. – 1st ed.

p. cm. – (Spaceheadz ; 3)

Summary: With only one hundred more Spaceheadz to sign up, Michael K.’s friends start planning an Earth-saving party but Michael fears the Brainwave might be used for a much more sinister purpose.

ISBN 978-1-4169-7955-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

[1. Extraterrestrial beings–Fiction. 2. Brainwashing–Fiction. 3. Schools–Fiction. 4. Spies–Fiction. 5. Friendship–Fiction. 6. Family life–New York (State)–New York–Fiction. 7. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)–Fiction.] I. Prigmore, Shane, ill. II. Scieszka, Casey. III. Weinberg, Steven. IV. Title. V. Title: SPHDZ book number three!

PZ7.S41267Sof 2011 [Fic]–dc23 2011029872

ISBN 978-1-4424-1296-5 (eBook)