It's been forty-two days since the monster apocalypse hit town and pretty much everyone ran away or got zombified. Average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan is holed up in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Dozers and Winged Wretches and Zombies, and especially...

"The past and future collide for Cosmoe, Big Humphree, and Princess Dagger! It's like d�ej�a vu all over again (and again)-Cosmoe's been taken hostage by space pirate Rani, the same pirate who seized him years earlier, beginning his life in space. As memories of Cosmoe's and Humphree's first days on the Neon Wiener unfold, the danger right now is big-time bad. Just when Cosmoe was getting the hang of this hero thing, he loses the one part of him...