Hilo: Saving the Whole Wide World, Hardcover/Judd Winick

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Calvin and Hobbes meets Big Nate meets Bone in HILO-the hilarious, action-packed New York Times Bestselling GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES kids AND critics love``A Total BLAST,`` says the Miami Herald DJ and Gina are TOTALLY ordinary kids. But Hilo . . . isn't. HILO is just settling into life on earth (Bowling? Knock-knock jokes? OUTSTANDING ) when strange portals begin opening up all over town. And HOLY MACKERELEven STRANGER creatures are coming through them But it will take more than a GIANT MUTANT CHICKEN, A VIKING HIPPO, A MAGICAL WARRIOR CAT, or even a few MILLION KILLER VEGETABLES to stop Team Hilo . . . er, WON'T IT? Can Hilo, DJ, and GINA figure out how to send these creatures back to their worlds before they DESTROY the earth? Praise for HILO Children's Choice 5th-6th Grade Book of the Year Nominated for multiple State Awards--including the Pennsylvania's Young Reader's Choice Award An ILA-CBC Children's Choice``More giant robotic ants and people going 'Aaaah ' than in the complete works of Jane Austen``--Neil Gaiman, bestselling author ``Every kid would love a pal like HILO, and every kid will love this book `` --Lincoln Peirce, bestselling author of the Big Nate series ``HILO is delightful, silly, tender, and most importantly: funny.`` --Jeff Smith, bestselling author of the Bone series ``Fast paced, furiously funny, and will have kids waiting on the edge of their seats for more.``--Jeffrey Brown, bestselling author of Jedi Academy ``Action-packed...and amazing fun ``--Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of the Ordinary People Change the World series ``HILO is loads of slapstick fun with a touch of tenderness that kids will love.``--Dan Santat, Caldecott Medal Winner ``High energy and HILARIOUS ``--Gene Luen Yang, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature ``A perfect book for any kid who ever needed a friend and then had one with superpowers fall from space.`` --Seth Meyers, actor, comedian and writer ``Universally appealing. A wholeheartedly weird and wonderfu