The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy

Book Description From a computer game in which the aliens want Johnny to negotiate a peace treaty for them, to the inhabitants of a cemetery who are just discovering how much fun being alive can be, to the time of the Blitz, join Johnny Maxwell and his friends in these three terrific tales from the master of comic fantasy. ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND - Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. JOHNNY AND THE DEAD - Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal; A Writers' Guild Award Winner; Also televised by LWT for ITV. JOHNNY AND THE BOMB - Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal; Shortlisted for the Children's Book Award; Smarties Prize Silver Medal Winner.

From the Back Cover

The Johnny Maxwell trilogy

ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND Hey, If not you, who else? But what can twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell do when he's all set to blow the aliens in his computer game into the usual million pieces - and they surrender? They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't it?

JOHNNY AND THE DEAD Johnny's got bad news for the dead in his local cemetery: the council want to sell the land as a building site. Well, the dead aren't going to take that lying down. They're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were...well...alive. And it's Halloween tomorrow...

JOHNNY AND THE BOMB Mrs Tachyon is just a nutty old bag lady, isn't she? No. Somehow, with her bunch of dubious black bags, she holds the key to different times, different eras - including the Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now isn't the safe place Johnny thought it was as he finds himself bound up more and more with then...

Three terrific tales from the master of comic fantasy, Terry Pratchett, author of the bestselling Bromeliad trilogy and the hugely successful Discworld series.

About the Author

Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.