Newt Nemesis

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Text © Ali Sparkes 2011
Illustrations © Ross Collins 2011

“SWITCH: Newt Nemesis!” was originally published in English in 2011. This edition is published by an arrangement with Oxford University Press.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sparkes, Ali.

Newt nemesis / by Ali Sparkes ; illustrated by Ross Collins.

pages cm. — (S.W.I.T.C.H. ; #8)

Summary: At summer camp, twins Josh and Danny and their new friend, Charlie, still have frog's legs from when “camp counselor” Petty Potts sprayed them with her new AMPHISWITCH, but a second attempt to restore them turns them into newts, instead.

ISBN 978–1–4677–3233–8 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

ISBN 978–1–4677–3235–2 (eBook)

[1. Camps—Fiction. 2. Newts—Fiction. 3. Brothers—Fiction.

4. Twins—Fiction. 5. Friendship—Fiction. 6. Science fiction.]

I. Collins, Ross, illustrator. II. Title.

PZ7.S73712Fro 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013019711

Manufactured in the United States of America

1 – SB – 12/31/13
eISBN: 978-1-4677-3235-2 (pdf)
eISBN: 978-1-4677-4018-0 (ePub)
eISBN: 978-1-4677-4017-3 (mobi)

With grateful thanks to John Buckley, fabulous
amphibian
*
and reptile guru, and ARC, without
whom this book might be full of embarrassing errors.

For Maisy, Lewis and Rosie

(
*
And no, I don't mean John Buckley is a fabulous amphibian)

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