Alien Invasion in My Backyard: An EMU Club Adventure

By Ruben Bolling

My name is Stuart Tennemeier, and I’m the President of the EMU Club (short for Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club). This is my report for our first mission.

Did you ever want to start a club with a friend, but you didn’t even know how to find a mystery to solve? Like, how would you even know there was a jewel heist or a haunted shack somewhere in your town? And how could you even begin to investigate it if you did?

What if you started a club to solve other kinds of mysteries. Not huge crimes or weird stuff, but everyday mysteries that happen to everyone, like whatever happened to that game controller we lost?

There are tons of little mysteries all around us. Sometimes if you look really, really closely at them, you find out some amazing, incredible things. And you just might save the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release date: Apr 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781449469443

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OFFICIAL EMU CLUB REPORT

PART ONE

THE PART BEFORE THE BEGINNING

A WARNING

This report is TOP SECRET, and only for the members of the EMU (Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable) Club, for the purpose of recording its amazing adventure.

If you’re reading this report and you aren’t a member of the Club, you should immediately destroy the copy you are holding, preferably by explosion.

Seriously, stop reading this and either give it back to one of us, or rip it up, or put it in a paper shredder, or toss it in a campfire and use it to roast marshmallows. But whatever you do,

DO NOT TURN THE PAGE!

ANOTHER WARNING!

SERIOUSLY!

Okay. You turned the page. But I’m going to give you one more chance. And it’s not because I want to keep a secret just to be cool. If the business of the Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club became public, people would totally freak out.

I mean running-around-the-streets-pulling-out-their-hair freak out. There are things you are much better off not knowing. And these things are better left to the professionals. Like us. So if you are not in the Club, for your own sake, and the sake of the sanity of the world,

DO NOT

I REPEAT,

DO NOT,

TURN THE PAGE!

OFFICIAL EMU CLUB REPORT

PART TWO

THE PART WHERE WE FORM THE CLUB

You turned the page again. I can only assume you are either a member of the Club, or you are evil. And if you are evil, we will be dealing with you soon enough.

This is the Official Report of the Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club, a.k.a. the EMU Club. A.k.a. stands for also known as, and I wrote a.k.a. so that I wouldn’t have to write out also known as, which is more time consuming.

To keep things official in this Official Report, I should start with a roll call. These are the members of the EMU Club:

Stuart Tennemeier, President. (Me.)

Eleven years old. A born leader.

Expertise: pyrotechnic explosives (well, it will be).

Career Goal: The first Major League starting shortstop to be elected president . . . of the world. And an astronaut, in my spare time. I’m a little short for my age, but I’m planning on a huge growth spurt in college.

Brian Hrznicz, C.E.O.

Eleven years old.

Brian is my best friend, so I’m allowed to say that he is one weird dude. He’s super-smart, but he’s nutty. Like he has to wash his hands all the time. But when things get freaky (and they do, you’ll see!), Brian is always totally cool and almost never even gets scared.

Violet Tennemeier, no title.

Eight years old.

I know, having your little sister in your club is uncool, but my mom makes me include her in everything. Violet’s pretty quiet most of the time, but I have to admit, every now and then she’ll do something