Cirrus@Austlit

'Squidge Dibley and his 6PU classmates at Craglands Primary are facing their biggest, grossest problem EVER.

'When their beloved teacher, Ms Trigley, suffers a bizarre injury while watching a performance at the school talent quest, Squidge's arch-nemesis (former-Vice-Principal-now-Janitor) Hector Hoovesly takes over teaching duties.

'Hoovesly immediately locks Squidge in a padded room, transforms the entire Craglands South Primary teaching staff into phone-addicted zombies and seizes control of the school.

'But Hoovesly's plan for revenge is only just getting started. He won't stop until he has taken control of EVERYTHING.

'Now, the only chance that Squidge, Padman and 6PU have to stop Hoovesly is buried deep under the school in an ancient, hidden bunker.

'Can Squidge and 6PU save Craglands South Primary before their whole world literally collapses above their heads?' (Publication summary)

'Squidge Dibley is the strangest kid at a school full of strange kids, in this hilarious series written and illustrated by Mick Elliott. In this Australian Reading Hour exclusive story, Squidge's latest invention blows a hole in the time-space continuum, creating CHAOS, DANGER and SQUIDGINESS.

'Normal kids build dioramas for History assignments. Squidge Dibley builds a time machine. When class 6PU's pet, Bubble O'Gill, accidentally falls into its wormhole and gets lost in time, it's up to the stretchy, bendy kid with ultrasonic burps to rescue him before he dries out and/or destroys life as we know it. Along the way, Squidge encounters some of the weirdest, wildest people and events from history, and leaves each place he visits just a little bit squidgier.'  (Publication summary)

'Picking up where SQUIDGE DIBLEY DESTROYS THE SCHOOL left off, the most hilarious and weirdest Year 6 class on Earth is about to become the most hilarious, weirdest and coolest class in the galaxy - thanks to the out-of-this-world talents of Squidge Dibley. But be warned: this series is too gross for grown-ups!

'After the disastrous events of SQUIDGE DIBLEY DESTROYS THE SCHOOL, things are finally looking up for class 6PU. All the way up into outer space!

'It all begins with half-a-duck and a very naughty python. Throw in an astronaut, a robot, a school hall full of insane inventions and an excursion to space camp, and you've got one crazy, cosmos-sized problem.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Things are going downhill fast for class 6PU at Craglands South Primary School.

'They've changed teachers more times than most kids change their socks, and their latest one is so strict they aren't even allowed to sneeze. But just when it seems like the school term has been turned into a prison term, a new kid arrives.

'A kid unlike any other kid at Craglands South.

'A kid named Squidge Dibley.

'He's small, quiet and strangely ... squidgy.

'And he's about to change everything.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.