Pi in the Sky

Shirley J.                Juvenile Fiction                       Supreme beings of the universe, earth disappears

Pi in the Sky by Wendy Mass    272 pages

Juvenile sci-fi story about the universe being run by a Supreme Overload and the planets being managed by his children.   The younger kids, not quite ready to step up and take on such responsibilities get lesser jobs.   Josh's job is to deliver pies.  (His grandmother is an amazing baker.)  Now these pies are a lot more involved than the pies we know here on earth, the pies that Josh delivers hold the secrets of the universe baked inside!   Lots happens, there is a.i. out the wazoo and lots of action on the fronts of ruling the universe and then in the midst of a cosmic intervention earth disappears.  Not only that but Josh's best friend Kal gets sucked out of "the Realm," the plane they inhabit while a girl from earth named Annika appears in it.   Josh doesn't really want to tell her that everything she has known up until this moment has just "disappeared," so he takes on the task of trying to restore earth.   But how?    A cute story geared to the 8 - 12 year old set.   An interesting take on what is out in the universe?    I would recommend this one to the younger set the author aims it for.