Fly Frenzy

by Ali Sparkes, Ross Collins (Illustrator)

Overview

Danny and Josh are trying their best to stay away from Petty Potts. They don't want anything to do with her crazy top-secret experiments, and they certainly don't want to get turned into bugs again! But when their mom's garden is ruined the day before the big neighborhood competition, the twins turn into bluebottle houseflies to take matters into their own two hands...or rather, into their six legs. Can they act like flies on the wall and find the culprits before it's too late?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467731065
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Series:	S.W.I.T.C.H. , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	85
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Before she became an author, Ali worked as a singer, journalist, magazine editor, assistant to a juggling unicyclist, and comedy columnist on BBC Radio. Ali describes herself as, at heart, an 11-year-old boy, and as a child spent a lot of time building forts, climbing trees, and digging up stuff.

Editorial Reviews

"Though the books are humorous, they are very informative and fascinating with the details about these small creatures." —starred, Library Media Connection

From the Publisher

The plot thickens with complications, plus various sorts of goo and slime, in the second episode of this boys-as-bugs series. When their mother's prized topiary is vandalized, 8-year-old twins Danny and Josh accept the offer of Petty Potts, the old-but-not-as-dotty-as-she-seems scientist next door, to transform them temporarily into houseflies in order to track down the perpetrator. Marveling at their suddenly different world ("I can see my own butt!" exclaims Danny. "Without turning my head around!"), the lads buzz off to the house of the suspected classmate culprit. There they have close and gross encounters with both a parental nose and a hungry spider--plus a reunion with friendly rats Scratch and Sniff, introduced in the first episode (Spider Stampede, 2013). In the end, just deserts are served out all around, and hints of a larger scheme involving Potts and her chemical cocktails point to sequels. Along with spritzing occasional drops of natural history into the story itself--"To a fly, pee is soup"--Sparkes appends a glossary of insect parts and other vocabulary words. For value added, all series episodes also feature a set list of print and Web resources for larval insectophiles. Sequels, publishing simultaneously, are Grasshopper Glitch, Ant Attack, Crane Fly Crash and Beetle Blast. Readers will suck up this quick and gooey adventure like the "fly-spit smoothie" that it is. (line drawings) (Fantasy. 7-9)

Kirkus Reviews