My Gym Teacher Is an Alien Overlord (19 page)

One does not
organize an alien invasion alone. Thanks to my editor, Kirsty “We come in peace” Stansfield, publisher Kate “Your weapons are useless” Wilson, Dom “Nuke 'em from orbit” Kingston, Fiona “No one can stop us now” Scoble, and the rest of the hive mind at Nosy Crow; thanks again to illustrator Laura “Destroy all humans” Anderson and designer Nicola “It's a trap!” Theobald for the stealth technology cover to fool the earthlings. I am grateful as ever for the invaluable strategic advice of Agent “My mother ship is bigger than yours” Stan. And finally, a world-flattening laser destructor blast of thanks to the woman whose existence ensures I always know where to direct the aliens when they say, “Take me to your leader,” my wife, Natasha.

DAVID SOLOMONS
has
been writing screenplays for many years.
My Gym Teacher Is
an Alien Overlord
is his second book for children. His first,
My Brother Is a Superhero,
won the 2016 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and lives in Dorset, England, with his wife, novelist Natasha Solomons, and their son, Luke, and daughter, Lara.

When Luke Parker's boring, teacher's pet brother Zack gets turned into a superhero, Luke can't believe the unfairness of it all. But when Zack—aka Star Guy—gets into super-size trouble, it's up to Luke and his intrepid neighbor Lara to rescue his big brother and, with a little luck, help him save the world.

“A non-stop action-packed, laugh-out-loud winner of a story.”

—School Library Journal,
starred review

“As genuinely open-hearted as the genre that inspired it.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Solomons demonstrates that he's equally at home with high-octane comic-book action and more ordinary topics like the pain of being overshadowed by an older sibling, superpowered or otherwise.”

—Publishers Weekly

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