• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 March #2
  Hold onto your butts as Buckley, author of the popular Sisters Grimm and NERDS series, throws his newest adventure into hyperdrive from page one. Giant locusts, aliens, robots, savage unicorns, and a wormhole-producing lunchbox lead to rapid-fire chaos in this series starter about kids saving the universe. Eleven-year-old Finn is having a tough year, and his latest batch of troubles includes being stuck in the principal's office with his bully, Lincoln. Without warning, Finn's lunchbox starts to spew cosmic tendrils of light—followed by a large robot named Highbeam and a piece of otherworldly tech that adheres itself to Finn's chest. This is how Finn and planet Earth are drawn into an alien war against the Plague—huge, sentient insects on the hunt for their next meal. While Buckley provides light backstories for his main kid characters, this book is entirely about nonstop action and well-placed dashes of humor. Finn and his four-kid crew ping around town and the occasional planet via wormhole, doing their darndest to stop the Plague from settling on Earth. Light-speed fun. Grades 3-5. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

MICHAEL BUCKLEY is the New York Times bestselling author of the Finniverse, Sisters Grimm and NERDS series and the cocreator, writer, and executive producer of Cartoon Network's Robotomy. He lives in New York City.Visit Michael online at michaelbuckleywrites.com and follow him on Twitter at @michaelwbuckley and on Instagram at @buckleystopshere.