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the kitchen and got two boxes down from a high shelf. One was red velvet, and one was green velvet. The red one, as she opened it, revealed a set of six perfect glass cubes. The BUGSWITCH cubes. Their six holograms contained the six parts of the code for making BUGSWITCH spray.
    Now Petty opened the green box. In this lay three cubes and three empty dents. Petty pressed the fourth cube into its dent and sighed happily.
    â€œJust two more to find!” she murmured. “Two more and the REPTOSWITCH code will be mine again! Mine! MINE!”
    She glanced at Josh and Danny and coughed. “I mean … ours.” She smiled at them. “And when it’s complete, you two will be the first humans on Earth to know how it feels to be a reptile! An alligator! A giant lizard! A python! Whatever you want! I will be able to make the spray…”

    â€œWill it make us rich?” wondered Danny. Danny liked money.
    â€œOf course,” said Petty. “But more importantly, it will make us the most famous scientists in the world!”
    A shadow moved outside Petty’s kitchen window. She flinched and went to stare outside. “Did you see that?” she whispered.
    â€œWhat? It was probably just a cat,” said Josh.
    Petty turned away from the window and stared at them both. “You ought to know…” she said, her eyes glittering, “… that the closer we get to finding the REPTOSWITCH code, the more dangerous it could get.”
    Danny blinked. “Look, we’ve been nearly eaten by a centipede and then burnt alive by a magnifying glass today. I think we know how dangerous it gets.”

    â€œNo, I mean … we’re probably being watched.” Petty flicked a glance back over her shoulder. “By them …”
    â€œThem?” said Josh.
    â€œThey have a file on me,” said Petty. “I might have been expelled from the government’s secret laboratories, but they’ve always been watching me. The mailman, the milkman, the lady who delivers fish … any one of them could be a government spy working for Victor Crouch. He might have burnt my memory out, but he’ll always have someone on the lookout, just in case. Watching and waiting. Waiting for a sign that my work goes on! He failed to steal it properly before. The he burnt out my memory before he realized his stupid mistake—that the notes he stole from me were all faked. He will always wonder if it’s possible for me to start again. And just in case, he will always have someone watching.…”
    â€œO … K,” said Josh. “Time for us to go home now. Byeeeee.”
    â€œI tell you! They’re like ants! They’re everywhere!” insisted Petty, snapping the velvet boxes shut. “Be on your guard! Tell me if you see anything suspicious! Anything at all …”
    â€œShe’s bonkers,” said Danny. Petty closed her front door, and they walked down the front garden path. “Every bonkers person thinks the government is spying on them.”
    â€œYep,” said Josh.
    Across the road, the man emptying the mailbox finished filling up his sack. Then, when nobody seemed to be looking, he took out a pair of binoculars and trained them on Petty Potts’s house …



BOOKS
    Want to brush up on your bug knowledge? Here’s a list of books dedicated to creepy-crawlies.

    Glaser, Linda.
Not a Buzz to Be Found
. Minneapolis: Millbrook Press, 2012.
    Heos, Bridget.
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Larvae: A Guide for Insect Parents (and Curious Kids)
. Minneapolis: Millbrook Press, 2011.
    Markle, Sandra. Insect World series. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2008.
WEBSITES
    Find out more about nature and wildlife using the websites below.
BioKids
    http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/
    The University of Michigan’s Critter Catalog
has a ton of pictures of different kinds of bugs and information on where they live, how they