{"product_id":"9780984682263","title":"Roadkill on the Flipside","description":"\u003cp\u003eROADKILL ON THE FLIPSIDE is the fourth book in The Warrensberg Trilogy, which includes \u003cem\u003eWaiting for the Voo\u003c\/em\u003e (Book 1), \u003cem\u003eEscape from Dorkville\u003c\/em\u003e (Book 2) and \u003cem\u003eThe Last Ma-Loo\u003c\/em\u003e (Book 3). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRoadkill on the Flipside\u003c\/em\u003e, Wilkin Delgado and Alice Jane Zelinski journey to a war-torn world to stop a rogue black hole that threatens to consume the universe. In this wild, interstellar adventure, the two meet up with a Fanta-loving alien, a 10-year-old war casualty, a deadly assassin, an artificial construct, an army of Scrubbers, a mysterious religious cult, the tunnel rats of Eris, an emotion-reading monster and a 5,000-year-old spaceship. It’s a race against time and space to save everything and everybody.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoadkill on the Flipside\u003c\/em\u003e is narrated in alternating chapters by 16-year-old Wilkin and 17-year-old Alice Jane (a gray-haired bacon-smelling doughnut-loving outcast from Missouri with serious anger issues). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilkin explains, \"Normally my life is pretty boring, but about once a year an intergalactic plumber named Cardamon Webb comes to my house and asks for help—to fix a nasty sewage problem (as an example) or figure out how to turn on the fresh water from the Source (as another example) or find a missing Ma-Loo somewhere in the infinite expanding universe (as a last example).\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Alice Jane fumes, \"I’d like to relocate back to Kansas City, but right now I’m stuck in Dorkville because of two restraining orders (one in Missouri and the other in Minnesota) and a slight misunderstanding with a half-dozen narrow-minded government officials and one stubborn Warrensberg police officer by the name of Dennis.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilkin and Alice Jane—together with Cardamon Webb, Loretta the puffin and a few others—have six days to save the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kabloona Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043142680816,"sku":"9780984682263","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780984682263_p0.jpg?v=1763879019","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984682263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}