Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox
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Chapter Book · Ages 10–13 · 2020 · Est. 6 hour read

Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox

By Michael Buckley

Book #1 in the The Finniverse series

A boy's lunchbox holds the universe's most dangerous weapon. Can he and his friends stop the alien bugs from destroying Earth?

5.3/7 Bookroo expert·3.9/5 Goodreads · 324 ratings
288 pages· 51,638 words· Est. 6 hour read
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Finn Foley's ordinary lunchbox unleashes chaos when it reveals a powerful device that attracts the deadly Plague, a race of giant bugs. With a robot ally and a motley crew including a bully, a cool classmate, and his unicorn-loving sister, Finn must navigate cosmic wormholes and battle to save the world. Can this unlikely team unite against the Plague's relentless pursuit, or will the universe's most dangerous weapon fall into the wrong hands? Adventure and danger await as they race against time.

From the publisher

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS comes a new action-packed middle-grade series with aliens, robots, and kids saving the world! Finn Foley has a lunchbox, and when he opens it, weird things come out . . . like a seven-foot-tall robot and a strange, blinking device that glues itself to his chest. The lunchbox also opens wormholes–shortcuts through space–that take Finn to the farthest corners of the galaxy. Sounds awesome, right? Not so much. Rocketing through the cosmos attracts the attention of the Plague, a race of gigantic bugs. The thing on Finn’s chest belongs to them–it’s the most dangerous weapon in the universe–and they want it back. To fight the Plague, Finn will need the lunchbox, as well as an unlikely squad of assistants: Lincoln, the bully; Julep, the coolest girl in school; Kate, Finn’s unicorn-obsessed little sister; and Highbeam, a robot spy from another galaxy. If they can learn to work together, they just might have a chance, but the bugs are coming, and they’ll stop at nothing to get their weapon–even if it means destroying the world.

At a glance
Format
Pages
288
Words
51,638
Reading age
10–13
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
630L
Themes & topics
Books about aliens and extraterrestrial beingsBooks about bugs and insectsBooks about lunch
What readers & critics say

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5.3

Creative, fairly epic story idea. Lots of "butt", some name calling like "suck" and "derp". Robot is worried about being "naked". Principal's clothes are stolen and he's in his underwear. Unicorns are vicious and make the blood run in battle with alien locusts.

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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.6
F&P level
~O
AR points
8
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
509801
Publication
Published
March 2, 2021
First published
April 28, 2020
Publisher
Yearling
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780525646907

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