'A zany explosion of hilarity' - Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl Some people are born to work in a secret Ministry hidden away in the far reaches of an old museum, and 12-year-old Jack is one of those people. The Ministry of Strange, Unusual and Impossible Things deals with all the weird and impossible things most people don't want to think about: ancient monsters, wild animals, pirates, unicorns, aliens ... Endlessly curious, perhaps to a level that might be called nosy, Jack finds himself and his frenemy Trudy as the Ministry's newest recruits. And their first mission? To find out where all the school oddbods are disappearing to ... 'So far off the wall that the wall would need a passport to visit it.

I wish I wrote this book.' - Mo O'Hara, author of My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series