Project WOOFF
Coming October 2026
Talking cats. Secret tunnels. Scientifically modified potatoes.
Project WOOFF was top secret…until now.
Project WOOFF
2026, Bloomsbury
ISBN 978-1-5476-1799-9
Middle Grade
Alex Grebert has lived his whole life in the off-grid community of Underland with his nature-loving Aunt Zinnia ever since he lost his parents. Alex loves his aunt, but it's not easy being a coder in a place where electricity and internet are practically nonexistent.
When Alex's best friend, Lily Day, takes in a stray cat named Fuzzypants, Alex is pulled into an adventure straight out of one of his self-made video games. The cat, whose real name is Professor Montague Wharton Fuzzypants, PhD., is a product of Project WOOFF (Weaponized Operational Optimization of Flora and Fauna), a top secret government project that used Al to develop intelligent, speaking animals.
Project WOOFF was supposed to have been shut down a long time ago, but someone is continuing the experiments. Alex and Lily are determined to find out why it all went wrong, especially when Alex discovers that there may be more to his parents story than he had ever been told.
“PROJECT WOOFF is deliciously weird, nicely creepy, and laugh out loud funny. If Matthew McElligott had published this when I was a kid, it could have been one of my favorite books for the rest of my life!”
