Rocket and Groot: Stranded on Planet Strip Mall!

Written and illustrated by Tom Angleberger

Book #2 in the Marvel Middle Grade series

Crash-landed on a strip mall planet, Rocket and Groot face killer toilets and maniacal robots.

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224 pages· 10,220 words· Est. 2 hour read

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Rocket and Groot crash-land on a bizarre planet of endless strip malls, only to find themselves battling raccoon-eating toilets and relentless robots. Stranded without resources, they must rely on each other and Veronica, their quirky tape dispenser companion. As Rocket documents their misadventures with a space stylus, the duo navigates this surreal world, raising the question: can they escape before becoming toilet chow? Discover the unexpected twists in their adventure, and see what happens when Groot takes a turn at illustrating their journey. Will they survive this retail nightmare?

From the publisher

After battling deadly space piranhas in Sector 7 of the Cosmos, Rocket and Groot crash-land on a planet made entirely of strip malls!There are dry cleaners, nail salons, 99 cent stores, 98 cent stores, chain restaurants, and maniacal robots bent on customer service. Sounds like paradise, right?Wrong. It doesn’t take long for Rocket to discover that the place is infested with raccoon-eating toilets! That’s right. KILLER toilets! Badly injured from the piranha fight, the totally-butt-kicking-duo have no ship, no guns, no money, no food, no water . . . BUT . . they have each other. Oh, and Veronica, the totally awesome super-intelligent tape dispenser!! (She told us to say that).Told through the eyes of Rocket, STRANDED ON PLANET STRIP MALL features simple black-and-white drawings throughout, as Rocket uses a space stylus to express his adventures, visually, while Veronica, their space recording companion, lays out the adventure in text! Granted, the drawings are done by a space Raccoon with a bad attitude, but what would happen if he gave Groot a shot to draw an adventure they had been on? What would we get? We’ll find out in the final chapter!

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