NERDS VS ALIENS!

Aliens are on their way to Earth, but never fear the future of our world rests in the hands of three ten-year-old nerds. A laugh-out-loud alien adventure novel for young middle fiction readers from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling Australian author of My Life as an Alphabet.

'The world will end at ten thirty-six in the morning, on the fourteenth of March this year.'

This is the message aliens send to ten-year-old nerds Harrison (Aitch), Ally and Mo. How do they send it? Via the magnetic poetry on Mo's fridge, of course.

Aitch and Ally aren't sure what to believe, but soon they're in an alien spaceship travelling at lightspeed to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Mo is worried his mum will be furious that he boarded an alien craft with strangers. And Aitch is not too happy that they've kidnapped his dog.

But maybe the aliens aren't that scary after all? They say they want to save the planet. It's only humans they're not so impressed by.

The future of the human race might just be in the hands of three nerds and their lazy dog. What could go wrong?

A wild ride that's full of laughs from the bestselling author of My Life as an Alphabet.

Barry Jonsberg is the internationally popular author of over 22 novels which have attracted numerous awards including CBCAs, Prime Minister and Premiers' awards, German Readers' Choice Leserpreis and Children's Peace Literature Awards. His most recent on the awards circuit, Smoke & Mirrors, was shortlisted for the 2025 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Writing for Young Adults and the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult Book Award.