JACK JACOBS: THE DOG THAT CRIED HUMAN: F.L.E.M.M.I.N.G. FILES, BOOK 1

Jack Jacobs has eighth grade figured out. Keep your arms crossed. Lean the chair back exactly two inches. Look out the window like you're thinking deep thoughts about the fog rolling in off the Atlantic. Perform the confidence until it feels real.Then a chemical spill in his science teacher's hidden lab changes everything.The F.L.E.M.M.I.N.G. compound hits Jack, his best friend Skye, and their resident genius Ada during Friday detention. By Saturday morning, Jack is waking up naked and covered in marsh mud with a dead seagull in his toilet. His senses are dialed to eleven. He can smell his mother's hand lotion from across the kitchen. He can hear a dog barking three streets over. And something deep inside his bones is trying to become something that definitely does not have homework.Jack always assumed he was a lone wolf - dangerous, independent, untouchable. Turns out the universe has a sick sense of humor. He's a border collie. Fluffy. Eager. One ear up, one ear flopped over. Mortifying.But the transformation isn't a joke. It's a countdown. The animal is pushing the human out, and if the three of them can't find the cure hidden inside a corporate fortress before the clock runs out, they won't be going back to school on Monday. They won't be going back to anything.To survive, Jack will have to stop performing the confidence and actually find it. He'll have to trust his pack, face down a monster that used to grade his quizzes, and accept that the border collie - the animal that stays, the animal that holds the line - was the right answer all along.Jack Jacobs: The Dog That Cried Human is the first book in The F.L.E.M.M.I.N.G. Files, a middle-grade series about growing up, losing control of your own body, and discovering that who you actually are might be better than who you were pretending to be.For readers ages 10 and up who love Animorphs, Goosebumps, and Percy Jackson.

Pagina's: 266, Paperback, Independently published