{"product_id":"klawde-evil-alien-warlord-cat-1-isbn-9781524787202","title":"Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat #1","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Applaud for KLAWDE. Two paws up!\"--Dav Pilkey, creator of the Dog Man series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Funny, savage, and brilliant, Klawde is the pet I wish I had.\"--Max Brallier, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Seller \u003ci\u003eThe Last Kids on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKlawde 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKlawde 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaj 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 \u003ci\u003enature camp\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt'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... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeavily 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. | Johnny Marciano is a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and illustrator. His books for kids range from The Witches of Benevento series to \u003ci\u003eThe No-Good Nine\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMadeline at the White House\u003c\/i\u003e, while his nonfiction work includes \u003ci\u003eAnonyponymous\u003c\/i\u003e. Johnny lives in Headquarters, New Jersey, with his wife, nine-year-old daughter, two cats, and a dog. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Chenoweth is the author of \u003ci\u003eHello Goodbye\u003c\/i\u003e and the ghostwriter of several young adult \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestsellers. Under the name Emily Raymond, she has co-authored eight books with James Patterson, including \u003ci\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExpelled\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWitch \u0026amp; Wizard: The Lost\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner, the writer Jon Raymond, and their two daughters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobb Mommaerts is an illustrator living and working in the frigid state of Wisconsin. He hasn't changed much from his childhood years in the fact that he still mostly loves drawing monsters, dinosaurs, and robots. From his basement dungeon, he works primarily in the world of game art, children's books, character design, and comics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen not attempting to put the strange daydreams from his head to paper, he and his wife are trying to keep up with two kids and a dog. | \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrologue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDate: The 789th day of the year 58-493-D\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlanet: Lyttyrboks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlace: The Supremest Court of All Galactic Order\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy enemies came for me at naptime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore I could even unsheathe my claws, they pounced atop me. They tied me up and chained my paws, and then they dragged me from my holding cell into the Supremest Court of All Galactic Order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a most unpleasant way to wake up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough I could not fight them, I yowled so ferociously that the courtroom crowd—\u003cb\u003etraitors\u003c\/b\u003e, all of them!—hissed and scattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly \u003ci\u003eone\u003c\/i\u003e cat had not betrayed me: my loyal minion, Flooffee-Fyr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You’ll always be \u003ci\u003emy \u003c\/i\u003eLord High Emperor!” he called. “And I will always be your—\u003ci\u003eoww\u003c\/i\u003e!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomeone had smacked him on the back of the head. It was the greatest traitor of them all, my former second-in-command—General Ffangg!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not such a mighty and powerful warlord \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e, are you?” he said, purring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy tail slashed in anger. “I shall have my REVENGE on you, Ffangg!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We shall see about that,” Ffangg said, and bared his teeth at me as the Thirteen Noble Elders filed into the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Chief Elder licked his right paw and called the court to order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My fellow cats,” he began. “Thousands of years ago, when our planet was overrun by criminal felines, our wise ancestors decided that these evildoers must be exiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Far across the universe, they discovered a vast wasteland of a planet, inhabited by a race of carnivorous ogres. For generations, we sent our convicts there. None ever returned. But in the year 49-763-B, the punishment was deemed \u003ci\u003etoo\u003c\/i\u003e cruel, and it was decreed that no feline—no matter how evil, no matter how tyrannical—would ever again be sent to this horrible place. And so it has been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Until \u003cb\u003eyou\u003c\/b\u003e came along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You, former Lord High Emperor, have been so relentless in clawing your way to power, so ruthless in your evil schemes of domination, and so dedicated to general crimes against felinity, that we are forced to resurrect this ancient punishment.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crowd gasped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Have you anything to say, Wyss-Kuzz?” asked the Chief Elder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lesser cat might have begged for mercy, but all I showed them was my scorn!\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“Every one of you feckless felines will rue the day you overthrew me—the greatest warlord the universe has ever known—for the likes of a pathetic schemer like General Ffangg! You may shoot me into space like yesterday’s trash, but I swear to you that one day soon, I WILL BE BACK!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Ffangg chuckled. “\u003ci\u003eYou\u003c\/i\u003e will be\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ean ogre’s breakfast.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a wave of Ffangg’s paw, the guards unbound me and forced me into the waiting teleporter. Brilliant green light flashed as the wormhole opened. In an instant, I was transported 2,900.4 million light-years across space—to the most horrible, distant, and desolate planet in the universe:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a rainy Saturday night, and I was lying on the floor of my new living room, staring at the ceiling and wishing I were anywhere but here. Dad was watching baseball, Mom was working on her laptop, and I was experiencing a life-threatening level of boredom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI still couldn’t believe what had happened. Up until last week, I’d been living a really great life in Brooklyn, New York. But then my parents decided to move 2,900.4 miles across the country to here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElba, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you ask me—and no one did—this was a terrible idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn New York, I could visit three friends without ever leaving my apartment building\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e And when I did leave, I could walk to the library, a comic book store, a candy shop, and two pizzerias all without having to cross the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf I left my house in Elba, I could walk to twelve trees, an ant mound, a hornets’ nest, and a bunch of rosebushes. Nature was \u003ci\u003eeverywhere\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was spooky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to my mom, we’d moved to Oregon because she’d gotten a better job, and I got to have a big bedroom and a backyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that stuff didn’t matter to me. Where were the comic book stores and pizza places? There wasn’t a single\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eshop on my street—not even a laundromat with good vending machines!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere in Oregon, I had nothing to do and zero friends. Which was maybe why I hadn’t unpacked yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then again, neither had my parents. What \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c\/i\u003e excuse was, I had no idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’d just picked up the latest Americaman comic to read for the millionth time when \u003ci\u003eit \u003c\/i\u003ehappened—a bright green flash lighting up the sky outside the window. It only lasted a second, and then everything went dark and rainy again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Did you see that?” I asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yes!” my dad hollered. “Torres stole third base! \u003ci\u003eThird base!\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No, that crazy green light!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy mom looked up from her laptop. “What, dear?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The \u003ci\u003egreen\u003c\/i\u003e light outside!” I said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Oh, Raj, that was just lightning,” my mom said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkay, so another weird thing about Oregon: \u003ci\u003egreen lightning\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI went back to reading my comic—and then the doorbell rang.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDING-DONG!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe doorbell? Who could \u003ci\u003ethat \u003c\/i\u003ebe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere I was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eEarth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was even more horrifying than the ancient texts had described.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was nighttime. Blazing lights shone down from the top of huge, branchless trees. As I scanned the area for carnivorous ogres and other dangers, something \u003ci\u003ewet\u003c\/i\u003e hit me on the nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was a liquid, falling from the sky!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas this some sort of chemical weapon? Was I under attack?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI rushed under a leafy bush, but it offered little protection. The liquid slid down my lustrous fur, chilling me to the bone. I didn’t know \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c\/i\u003e it could possibly be, but I HATED it. I had to find shelter now!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThankfully, many of the trees on this planet did have branches. I climbed the nearest one, from which I immediately found evidence of Humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll around stood their massive fortresses, packed in so close they almost touched one another. High wooden walls surrounded their small patches of territory. In front of the fortresses sat huge, tank-like vehicles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis must be a very warlike planet indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI needed to gain entry into one of these fortified structures. I didn’t know what the ogres within would do to me, but this falling liquid was \u003ci\u003eintolerable\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI raced to the nearest fortress. Next to its front portal was a glowing button. A push-button to open the entrance! Perhaps this would allow me to sneak in without being noticed. 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