{"product_id":"the-accidental-spaceship-isbn-9781593541194","title":"The Accidental Spaceship","description":"\u003ci\u003eOn normal mornings, the first thing Vernon saw from his bedroom\u003cbr\u003ewindow was a big hayfield between two long, wooded hills.\u003cbr\u003eThis particular morning was different: a Big White Thing outside his\u003cbr\u003ewindow was blocking his view.\u003cbr\u003e\"Where'd it come from?\" Vernon whispered.\u003cbr\u003e\"How should I know?\" Junior whispered back. \"What is it?\"\u003cbr\u003e\"I bet I know!\" Vernon said. \"It's a tank that must have\u003cbr\u003eexploded and landed here! It just missed us!\"\u003cbr\u003eJunior didn't see the Big White Thing as a tank. \"Know what it looks\u003cbr\u003elike?\" he asked. \"A spaceship.\"\u003cbr\u003eVernon shook his head. \"A spaceship? Get a grip!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e from the book\u003cp\u003eFor everyone who wants to grow up and read \u003ci\u003eThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt all started with the gently-used spaceship that appeared in the backyard. That's the backyard of Vernon and Junior Smith, thirteen-year-old twins in Whipple Crossing, Pennsylvania. The craft made a curious whirring noise and came complete with a cranky robot with attitude. But real trouble shows up at the front door two days later, in the form of a weasely tax collector from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania demanding $1,000,000 in back taxes for illegally parked space vehicleotherwise jail time awaits. What to do? Part-time paleontologist granddad's no helphe's off in the Antarctic hunting for fossils. Vernon and Junior agree (a rare occurrence) that running away is the best way to go. But where to run? And how to get there? Well, there is that used spaceship in the backyard...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exuberant skewering of space travel, delivery people, tax collectors, robots, TV anchors, trading, learning languages, bad\/good manners, and the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this is a hilarious send-up of the world we know and the one in outer space we do not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chronicle Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44895917375717,"sku":"NP9781593541194","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-accidental-spaceship-isbn-9781593541194","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}