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"Funny, savage, and brilliant, Klawde is the pet I wish I had."—Max Brallier, author of the New York Times Best Seller The Last Kids on Earth
Klawde is not your average cat. He's an emperor from another planet, exiled to Earth. He's cruel. He's cunning. He's brilliant... and he's about to become Raj Banerjee's best friend. Whether he likes it or not.
Klawde had everything. Sharp claws. Fine fur. And, being the High Commander of the planet Lyttyrboks, an entire world of warlike cats at his command. But when he is stripped of his feline throne, he is sentenced to the worst possible punishment: exile to a small planet in a quiet corner of the universe... named Earth.
Raj had everything. A cool apartment in Brooklyn. Three friends who lived in his building. And pizza and comics within walking distance. But when his mom gets a job in Elba, Oregon, and he is forced to move, all of that changes. It's now the beginning of summer, he has no friends, and because of his mother's urgings, he has joined a nature camp.
It's only when his doorbell rings and he meets a furball of a cat that Raj begins to think maybe his luck is turning around...
Heavily illustrated, with a hilarious, biting voice that switches between Raj and Klawde's perspectives, this is the story of an unlikely friendship that emerges as two fish out of water begin to find their footing in strange new worlds.
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- ISBN: 9781524787219
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- ISBN: 9781524787219
- File size: 36298 KB
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- English
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- ATOS Level: 4.4
- Lexile® Measure: 590
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 2-3
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December 1, 2018
Wyss-Kuzz was such an evil warlord his feline people rose up and dusted off an ancient punishment: exile via teleporter to the most awful place in the cosmos, Earth.Raj Bannerjee, soon-to-be sixth-grader, has been exiled from his beloved Brooklyn to Elba, Oregon, which is creepily full of nature. Unbeknownst to the Bannerjees, an alien has been banished to their front yard. Wyss-Kuzz, terrified of the liquid falling from the sky, seeks shelter in one of the fortresses inhabited by furless ogres who are so stupid they can't understand his feline language (or recognize his vast superiority). Raj has always wanted a cat and promises to go to survival camp if he can keep Klawde, as his clueless father's renamed the alien warlord. Can Raj survive survival camp? Can Wyss-Kuzz bend these disgusting primitives to his will and get them to build him a transporter so he can exact revenge on his home planet? Earth cats are imbeciles, but a mind-meld can conquer the language barrier with humans...but that may cause more troubles than it solves. Wyss-Kuzz and Raj trade off narration duties in Marciano and Chenoweth's first of four hissterical interstellar adventures. Wyss-Kuzz's constant misinterpretation of things earthly and Raj's goofy new friends and enemies at camp will hook even reluctant readers. Mommaerts's two-color, cartoon illustrations add more laughs as well as such background details as the Banerjees' Ganesha to confirm their South Asian heritage. Sequel Enemies publishes simultaneously.Fun for feline fanatics and light sci-fi lovers. (Science fiction. 7-11)COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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February 1, 2019
Grades 2-5 Lord High Emperor Wyss-Kuzz of the planet Lyttyrboks has been sent into exile on Earth. Upon landing, he seeks shelter in the home of a small ogre called Raj, who also feels misplaced as his family moved from New York to Oregon. Forced to attend a survival camp, he agrees to go if he is allowed to keep Wyss-Kuzz, now named Klawde. Klawde soon mind-melds with Raj so he can speak English, and explains that he desperately misses home and needs Raj's opposable thumbs to help build a teleportation device. As they work together, Klawde decides to let Raj come with him because Raj would make a great one-man giant army for his reconquering plan! When Raj's camp Survival Night goes horribly wrong and he calls on Klawde for help, Klawde rushes to his aid. Will Klawde return home or will he choose to stay with his new family? With cute illustrations, hilarious misunderstandings, and pun-filled names, readers of all ages will claw their way to the second book (published simultaneously).(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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