The Little's Voyage. The Occasion Mists, #6

In space, no one can hear you chuckle!From Spider Heaven to the Elfain Village is only a small journey when compared to the voyage that four familiar friends will embark upon as they go to seek out the source of the evil that was Chagga Toombe. A strange alien race, called the Transloovians, work and toil within the honeycomb chambers of a dead world, seeking out a precious material whilst trying not to fall prey to either the Grimshankles or to alien attack ships.
The Strange Invaders have another plan in which they hope to attack the Earth and wipe out mankind, leaving the planet empty and ready for them to colonize and this time it looks as though they will succeed. That is unless a boy named Danny, a Seagull called Bongo Wiggins, a spider who was just settling into the after-life, and a dead bee who thinks he's John Wayne, can all come up with a plan to defeat the aliens before they launch their attack upon the Earth.
Leaving Earth on a very special type of spacecraft, the four friends will embark upon a journey from which only three will return. The stakes are high and Danny begins to see just how deadly the enemy of Earth really is. For the first time he is going to feel the loss of a close one, for the first time he is going to realise that he is going to have to grow up and leave his innocent childhood behind.
The Little's Voyage - Book #6 in The Occasion Mists series.