The Boy Who Swallows Flies

Winner of the Claymore Award!

Warning - Rated Kids-Only for Bug Grossness

Jarrod can view the memories of any bug. He just has to eat it. It's not the tastiest of superpowers and, let's face it, fly memories aren't all unicorns and rainbows. Eating insects also doesn't net him many friends, but Jarrod's ready to prove that he and his bugs are worth more than ridicule.

When he swallows a fly while biking, he's in for a shock. The bug saw a room stacked full of sick dogs and puppies in crates. It's a puppy mill, and Jarrod needs to save the animals. But the flight range of the common housefly is five miles. Even if the police believed him, with no evidence, they can't help. It's up to Jarrod.

Trained cockroaches survey neighborhood basements. A fly taped to a window makes an excellent sentry. Every ant, mosquito, caterpillar-don't eat the fuzzy yellow ones-and beetle is his edible sidekick.

Will Jarrod save the dogs? Or is it all too much to swallow?

Michael F. Stewart is the winner of the 2015 Claymore Award and author of the Assured Destruction Series (a Foreword Book of the Year Honorable Mention, Library Journal's Best Self Published Book 2015: runner-up, semifinalist in the 2014 Kindle Book Awards, and winner of The Creation of Stories: Best YA Award at the Toronto International Book Fair). He likes to combine storytelling with technology and pioneered interactive storytelling with Scholastic Canada, Australia and New Zealand's, anti-cyberbullying program Bully For You. He has authored four graphic novels with Oxford University Press Canada's award winning Boldprint series. Publications of nonfiction titles on Corruption and Children's Rights published by Scholastic Education as well as early readers and three forthcoming novellas with Pearson. Herder of four daughters, Michael lives to write in Ottawa where he was the Ottawa Public Library's first Writer in Residence and runs free writing workshops.