Useless and the School Fete

<p>Ewen Useless Euston is just trying to find his twin sisters at the school fete when he steps on a live wire behind the old fairy tree and vanishes into another world. The world looks like a fairy tale but it runs on science. The elves in silver suits riding hover mats are intergalactic criminals who have been using the portal to abduct children. They have a quota to fill and a market off-planet and sixteen kids are already trapped. The portal decays at sunset. Every child still in this world when it closes stays forever.</p><p>Ewen class brain Will and resourceful Perry have one afternoon to remove implanted tracking devices disable a force field and get sixteen kids home. Their allies include a deposed dragon king merged with a lizard and a pterodactyl a wizard and his Halfling helper Tellick. Their enemy has hover mats disintegrator weapons and a very short patience for children who won't cooperate.</p><p>The kid they all call Useless is going to need everything that name never gave him.</p>