Kid Zero

Harriet only wants to escape the horrible school – a perk of his wonderful new research job – that her dad's dumped her in. He gives her Bruno 'to look after' – but Bruno is not the tatty old teddy bear he seems, and Harriet is whisked away to his world, where Bruno turns into a large, fearsome Orlik called Grismond. Harriet is treated as a celebrity – she has been mistaken for someone from her own world called Kid Zero – but when she is attacked and saved only by Bruno's daring and quick thinking, everything changes. Suddenly she is in great danger. Kid Zero has been secretly plotting with the powerful and wealthy Conglomerate to take over this world and turn the Orliks into slaves, and Harriet has ended up where he should be. His reward for helping the Conglomerate is access to the Psyclone, a machine which slows ageing to the extent that you don't need children any more, a machine which would make him immensely rich on his (and Harriet's and our) world. In his fury Kid Zero releases his Robot Attack Troopers (RATs) to create havoc, and Grismond battles to save his world – and the future freedom of the Orliks. Somehow Harriet's father is connected to all this; she must escape to save her life and to stop the research that had been his life's work. She and her two new young Orlik friends must set off again into the unknown, to find him...