Amelia develops a cunning plan to smash the asteroids with a cannon of her design, using raw materials from the mine. They fall into an old iron mine, from which they escape. After another asteroid hit, Amelia and Uglesnoo come under suspicion and are briefly imprisoned. They have problems of their own: They are suffering from asteroid strikes that create a sickening fog of dust, hospitalizing many. But the Merballs are basically friendly and don’t want trouble. Hostile Venutons of Venus, the twosome’s last stop, try to prevent Amelia and Uglesnoo from trading with the Merballs (“ Do not keep these criminals. Next on the list: five pairs of flying shoes from Mercury, inhabited by Merballs. Some the duo has already collected, like five boxes of dandelions from Earth. A repelling crystal from Neptune will heal her, but that planet’s Queen Neep will barter it only in exchange for a long list of objects from around the solar system. In two previous children’s books, 8-year-old Amelia, a white girl with reddish hair, agreed to help Uglesnoo, a three-armed purple alien from Pluto, cure his ailing sister. A space-traveling girl continues gathering items to help save her alien friend’s sister in this third series outing.
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