Space Brat
The editor disagreed with this idea, however, saying he "didn't think kids would be interested in reading about a noseless green humanoid from outer space."
The series revolves around Blork, a young alien who lives on the planet Splat where children are hatched instead of born and remain quiet for three months until they eventually learn to get up and walk.
Blork had taken this remaining egg, thinking it was bad, and threw it against a rock, resulting in tiny baby poodnoobie rolling out.
While poodnoobies are notorious for growing to giant proportions, the nursery rules allow Splatoon children to have one pet each as long as they care for it.
This causes the teacher, Modra Ploogsik, to call the Big Pest Squad to take Lunk away where he will be vaporized like other troublesome animals.
Feeling responsible for this, Blork decides to immediately run away during class and stowaway on the van carrying Lunk until they reach the Big Pest Squad compound.
Eventually, the two are brought before the leader of the Things, a short man calling himself Squat who decides to make both Blork and Lunk slaves.
At this time, he also slowly learns the language of the Things as well as their history of how Squat came to imprison their kind through the use of a vaporizing gun.
Even more impressed than last time, Squat makes a deal with Blork that if he teaches him how to throw this tantrum he will allow both he and Lunk to go free.
The Things eventually help him pack for his journey home (including half of Squat's broken gun) and send him off on the rocket car that Blork had stolen earlier.
Blork pleads his case with Modra Ploogsik to call off the Big Pest Squad, taking responsibility for his actions and volunteering to do a lot of work to make up for all the trouble he had caused.
Eventually, Blork does plead his case to the Big Pest Squad with a lot of apologies and patience with success, even returning the rocket car he had stolen.
At the end of the story, Blork returns home and calls for Lunk--who excitedly races to him and licks his face with all three tongues.
Space Brat 3: The Wrath of Squat Before the ceremony to award Blork can happen, Squat returns in a large spaceship and abducts Blork, Lunk, Appus Meeko, along with Moomie Peevik and her pet and returns to a planet that he rules, in which the inhabitants are composed of nothing but angry people.
As they prepare to head home, the scientist decided to experiment with the ship by connecting two different wires, causing the spaceship to malfunction.
With their ship repaired and ready to return home, they try to recreate the same steps they used and swap out Skippy's position with Appus Meeko.
Space Brat 5: The Saber-toothed Poodnoobie Blork and his friends had attempted to return home using the same method that was used when Skippy was in the spaceship's closet.
Throughout the story, Blork meets a variety of prehistoric creatures and a Yoda-like character who advises him to not change the future by taking anything from the past with him.
At the end of the book, Blork and his friends finally get back to Splat in their own time but find that they had missed the medal ceremony.
In its review of Space Brat 4: Planet of the Dips, School Library Journal stated that "Beginning readers with a passion for weird words, stupid jokes, and odd behavior will find happiness in this light and lively addition to the series.
