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S.W.I.T.C.H Spider Stampede

by Ali Sparkes, illustrated by Ross Collins

Interest age: 7+
Reading age: 7+

Published by Oxford University Press, 2011

  • Chapter books
  • Fantasy

About this book

Josh and Danny are eight-year-old twins who sneak into their neighbours’ garden to look for their lost dog Piddle. They get more than they bargain for when they run into their next-door neighbour, Petty Potts - a mad scientist who is devising a serum which initiates total One accidental spray of the S.W.I.T.C.H spray (Serum Which Instigates Total Cellular Hijack) - and Josh and Danny find themselves transformed into spiders, complete with eight legs!

Follow Josh and Danny on their terrifying trail down the plughole (courtesy of their scared sister!) and their perilous journey back across the garden, all in the hope that they can be SWITCHED back…

Plenty of extra value in this inventive, fantastical tale, with word searches, quizzes, games and an accompanying educational yet fun website.

About the author

Ali is an author of more than 40 children's adventures - most of them published with Oxford Children's Books. Her first stand alone novel - Frozen In Time - was Blue Peter Book of the Year in 2010 and her more recent novel Car-Jacked has won five regional awards and been shortlisted for the UK's national Childen's Book Award. Starting out as a newspaper reporter and then a BBC broadcast journalist, Ali had a spell writing comedy for BBC Radio 4 before getting her first book deal and publishing her debut Shapeshifter series novel - Finding the Fox - in 2006.

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