Book description
This is a potato with attitude! It's come from outer space and it's
landed in the council rubbish tip. It's growing bigger by the minute and
it's looking round for things to eat. Only Cruncher, his grandad and a
potato-obsessed professor are around to stop it before it wipes out the
human race. The bad news is that the crash has upset the rules of space
and time and Silas Smite, the mad preacher, has been brought from the
past to hunt down all potato lovers. The good news is that Grandad has a
secret weapon: Gloria, the super bin van designed to collect space junk.
It's chaos out there - expect anything! Susan Gates was born in
Grimsby. As a child, she loved science fiction and detective stories,
and went on to study American literature at Warwick. She has been a
teacher, including one in Malawi, Africa. In 1995, her teenage book,
Raider, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal (pub OUP). She has twice
won the Sheffield Award with books for younger readers published by
Scholastic. She now lives in County Durham.
