Into the Dorkness

by John Kloepfer

  “Shut up, Madison. No one’s talking to you.”

  “Shut up, Madison. No one’s talking to you,” Madison continued in her baby voice.

  “Stop copying me,” Zack insisted.

  “Stop copying me.” Madison wouldn’t quit.

  “I’m an idiot,” Zack said, trying to outsmart her.

  “Yes, Zachary, I’m afraid you are.”

  Game over.

  Madison opened up the makeup case and pulled out what looked like colored pencils. Then she took a sip of her favorite drink, kiwi-strawberry VitalVeganPowerPunch.

  “You know, Madison,” Zack said. “I heard something, that if you drink too much of that stuff it can, like, mess with your whole biological makeup.”

  “Did someone say ‘makeup’?” Zoe chirped.

  With that, Madison pulled out a frightening array of cosmetics and placed them on the coffee table. Zack had no idea what all this stuff was used for, other than cluttering up Zoe’s bathroom.

  “Listen up, little bro.” Zoe formed a little rectangle with her index fingers and thumbs and peered through it like some kind of Hollywood director. “If you play nice, we’re gonna make you look really, really pretty. But if you disturb me while I’m filming, we will make you look silly, then I will lock you in your room, put this video on YouTube, and email the link to everyone at school. Now be a good hostage.”

  “Zoe, let me go or I’ll tell Mom and Dad that you’ve been sneaking out of the house at night,” Zack blurted in desperation.

  “Oh, dear brother,” Zoe sneered. “Good hostages don’t make threats.”

  She hit the space bar and yelled, “Action!”

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  GALAXY’S MOST WANTED #2: INTO THE DORKNESS. Copyright © 2015 by Alloy Entertainment and John Kloepfer. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Kloepfer, John, author.

  Into the dorkness / by John Kloepfer ; illustrated by Nick Edwards. — First edition.

  pages cm. — (Galaxy’s most wanted ; #2)

  Summary: Kevin and his science camp buddies, the Extraordinary Terrestrials, defeated the alien Mim and sent him back to prison—but now a group of his friends have shown up in spaceships, bent on revenge, and it is up to the Extraordinary Terrestrials to find a way to defeat the invaders.

  ISBN 978-0-06-223104-8 (hardcover)

  EPub Edition © April 2015 ISBN 9780062231055

  1. Human-alien encounters—Juvenile fiction. 2. Extraterrestrial beings—Juvenile fiction. 3. Science camps—Juvenile fiction. [1. Extraterrestrial beings—Fiction. 2. Camps—Fiction. 3. Science fiction. 4. Humorous stories. 5. Youth’s art.] I. Edwards, Nick, 1990– illustrator. II. Title.

  PZ7.K6845In 2015 2014030715

  [Fic] 813.6—dc23 CIP

  AC

  15 16 17 18 19CG/RRDH10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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