Space Lizards Stole My Brain! by Mark Griffiths

Space Lizards #1

by Mark Griffiths

When Admiral Skink, an alien-lizard warlord from the planet Swerdlix, is attacked by The Hideous and Unimaginably Vast Comet Creature of Poppledock he faces a certain death… but luckily his underlings have installed the BrainTwizzler 360 Mind Migration SystemTM. This nifty invention safely transfers Skink's mind on to a memory wafer and jettisons it through space to find a suitable temporary "home" until he can be rescued by his fellow Swerdlixians. Unluckily for eleven-year-old Lance Spratley it just so happens that the temporary home for Admiral Skink's mind is his body! And while Skink deals with being trapped in Lance's useless body - it can't even breathe fire! - Lance is transferred to a virtual waiting room surrounded by the lizard race who seem intent on destroying Earth when they have successfully retrieved Skink.Will Lance ever get his body back? And even if he does will he be able to thwart Admiral Skink and the Swerdlixians plans to invade Earth…

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 5, 2012

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Reviews

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I admit to being somewhat biased but I am very fond of this book.

[Sarah]

If you like funny, exciting and weird books...then this is the one to read! it's about boy called Lance, (Goodie) and Evil lizard warlord Admiral Skink (baddie) Lance lives at home with his parents who are not very nice...The Evil lizard wants to take over the world but Lance wont let him,it begins with a strange twist that involves a 'brain switch'. Lance finds himself in an alien spaceship meeting all sorts of other wonderful characters, there are some great illustrations too. this is probably suitable for year5/6 children.

[Tracy Enright · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the titles of children's books these days and my son loved this book. To be fair, he loves any book we read together but I have to admit, I enjoyed this book almost as much as he did. The plot was inventive and there was a humour there that both children and adults could enjoy. The characters were quite simple, as you would expect in a children's book, but this did not stop them being three-dimensional or engaging. The bad guys in particular were interesting and made less scary than they might have been for a four-year-old through the quirky humour that ran through the book. My son was disappointed that the library doesn't stock the next book in the series and I suspect we might be subjected to some pester-power in the near future.

[Amir · Rating 5 out of 5]

Genial. Me gustaría que existiera en castellano para ofrecerlo a mi sobrina.