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    Faster Than a Sleeping Bumblebee
    Faster Than a Sleeping Bumblebee
    Faster Than a Sleeping Bumblebee
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    Faster Than a Sleeping Bumblebee

    By Louisa Swann

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    Jamie Sloan found his super powers sitting in a blackberry bush outside his bedroom window on the morning of his tenth birthday.
    Picking blackberries—not high on Jamie’s priority list, especially on his tenth birthday. But Mom insists—family tradition and all that grownup bunk.
    Using a beat-up old bucket handed down from father to son for who knows how long, Jamie picks until the bucket overflows . . .
    And finds himself holding a bucketful of trouble.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEye of the Eagle
    Release dateJul 26, 2016
    ISBN9781370247806
    Faster Than a Sleeping Bumblebee
    Author

    Louisa Swann

    Louisa is a professional writer living in northern California with husband, son, and a slew of critters, both domestic and wild. The family has been off the grid for over twenty years and keeps their carbon footprint small by doing without frig and water heater. Besides writing and caring for critters, both two-legged and four-legged, Louisa is the proud mama of a host of other little beings, namely veggies and flowers, who live in their 8′x16′ greenhouse. Springs fills the air with flowers and song while frogs leap merrily underfoot. Life is sweet!

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      Faster Than a Sleeping Bumblebee - Louisa Swann

      Jamie Sloan found his super powers sitting in a blackberry bush outside his bedroom window on the morning of his tenth birthday.

      Picking blackberries—not high on Jamie’s priority list, especially on his tenth birthday. But Mom insists—family tradition and all that grownup bunk.

      Using a beat-up old bucket handed down from father to son for who knows how long, Jamie picks until the bucket overflows . . .

      And finds himself holding a bucketful of trouble.

      Published by

      Eye of the Eagle

      P.O. Box 2078

      Portola, CA 96122

      Faster Than a Sleeping Bumblebee

      Copyright © 2016 Louisa Swann

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Cover Artist:

      Brandon Swann

      License Notes

      This is a work of fiction. All characters and incidents in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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      Faster Than a Sleeping Bumblebee

      Louisa Swann

      JAMIE FOUND HIS super powers sitting in a blackberry bush outside his bedroom window on the morning of his eleventh birthday. If someone had told him all he had to do was go outside and pick his super powers, he would’ve done so a long time ago.

      Of course, all he’d ever seen on this particular bush before had been blackberries. Green ones, red ones, big fat ones that dripped juice down his chin when he shoved too many into his mouth.

      But the fuzzy things currently decorating his bush like weird Christmas ornaments were definitely not blackberries—of any color.

      It’d all started when his mom woke him from a dream he wished he could remember, but couldn’t.

      Rise and shine, birthday boy. It’s a gorgeous morning for a special day, she’d said, yanking off his covers

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