Hazel Nutt, Alien Hunter

David Elliott. Holiday House, $16.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8234-1843-5

Hazel Nutt, Alien Hunter has landed a new career in this pun-drenched sequel by David Elliott, illus. by True Kelley. Aboard her spaceship, BoobyPrize, she and her two-headed first mate, Igor, are forced by a meatball shower to land on the planet Wutt (resulting in Abbott and Costello-style gags). And in Wizard of Oz fashion, it turns out Hazel's ship has crushed the Wuttites' ""little lady leader."" .

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