Book excerpt: While two seventh-grade students research a report on the brain’s functions, dimwitted Sal falls under the telepathic control of a virtual brain, which gives him super-genius powers to command other people and implement the brain’s plans of world domination. Once the town of Galena, Illinois is under the brain’s rule, Sal’s best friend, the manipulative Jake, bravely struggles to defeat the evil brain and its legion of brain-zombies in a series of funny and strange situations. Find out if Jake can outsmart the biggest brain on the planet in award-winning writer J Louis Messina’s B-sci-fi tale THE BRAIN THAT ATE MY BEST FRIEND’S MIND.