Meet 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.To earn his cosmic
correspondent badge, Dethbert begins writing to an earthling - and boy,
does he have a lot to write about! Between 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. Misadventures - from hairy ankles to crash
landings - abound, but Dethbert's curiosity and enthusiasm can't be
crushed, not by anything in this galaxy, anyway!