US author, all of whose books have been written in collaboration with her husband, Bob Ruddick; her work is exclusively aimed at the younger end of the Young Adult market, and includes two series, the Max and Me sequence beginning with Max and Me and the Time Machine (1983) with Bob Ruddick, in which a piece of junk turns out to be a time machine that carries young Max (see Time Travel) into medieval England; and the Jason sequence beginning with Jason and the Aliens Down the Street (1991 chap) with Bob Ruddick, that undemandingly confronts young Jason with an Alien; no further Jason titles were released.
Love! The story is rather short but then again it sort of works better as a face paced chapter book. Lootna is awesome, and Coop is kind of a numbskull in the way Johnny Bravo is but equally amusing, too.
Definitely going to look for the rest of the stories in this collection, let's hope they're not out of print.