SWITCH: Beetle Blast Award-winning author by Ali Sparkes (author)

Josh and Danny are on a day out with the local nature group, but when they accidentally eat a chocolate muffin laced with S.W.I.T.C.H formula, they experience the real dangers of pond life first hand. Soon the boys are beetling about in a pond, breathing underwater, and creating the most almighty stench to scare off predators.

But life as a pongy pond beetle is the least of their problems-there’s a mysterious stranger hanging around-and he’s out to get them.

Will Josh and Danny find out who the stranger is before it’s too late? And can they help Petty Potts in her mission to recover all of the REPTOSWITCH cubes so she can turn them into even more exciting beasties?

Petty Potts’s diary entry: I do hope Josh and Danny will come round tomorrow-they have to understand the DANGER we’re all in! And of course, I really need their help. I’m sure I will manage to talk them around. After all, they both can’t wait to try out being a giant python or an alligator or a monitor lizard.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780192729378

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.5; Middle years; 1.0 points

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Ali Sparkes

Ali Sparkes is the author of lots of children’s books including the award winning Frozen in Time, and the Monster Makers, Shapeshifter and S.W.I.T.C.H. series.

She’s also a journalist and BBC broadcaster who regularly exploits her sons, as an in-house focus group for her children’s novels. She reckons it’s a fair trade for being used as a walking food and drink vending machine.

Ali was a local newspaper reporter and columnist before joining BBC Radio Solent as a producer and presenter and then chucked in the safe job to be dangerously freelance and write scripts and manuscripts. Her first venture was as a comedy columnist on Woman’s Hour and later on Home Truths.

She grew up adoring adventure stories about kids who mess about in the woods and still likes to mess about in the woods herself whenever possible. Ali lives with her husband and two sons in Southampton.