Super Fly Guy (Fly Guy #2)

by Tedd Arnold (Author) Tedd Arnold (Illustrator)

Super Fly Guy (Fly Guy #2)
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Fly Guy
The second book in a humorous, easy-to-read series about a boy and his fly! Books have foil covers!

Fly Guy loves the school lunchroom. He loves the dirty dishes, the smelly mop, and the garbage cans. But when the lunch ladies discover there's a fly in the cafeteria, chaos ensues! Though Fly Guy makes a mess of things, he also shows his powers as a Super Fly Guy!

Using hyperbole, puns, slapstick, and silly drawings, bestselling author/illustrator Tedd Arnold creates an easy reader that is full of fun. With an eye-catching holographic foil cover, this is the second in a series of four books.
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Keep on buzzing, Fly Guy. Copyright 2006 Kirkus Reviews, LLC Used with Permission.

School Library Journal

K-Gr 2 In this easy chapter book, Buzz's pet fly attends school with him. When the lunch lady allows the insect to live in the lunchroom, she is fired. Fly Guy is subsequently banned from the room by her replacement, who is a terrible cook. Finally, Buzz comes up with a plan, Roz is reinstated, and Fly Guy gets to stay in the lunchroom. The writing is fast paced, the plot is interesting, and many of the humorous and mildly -gross - details will appeal to children. The cartoon illustrations are funny and action-packed and the layout is appropriate for beginning readers, with one or two sentences per page. The text has suitable repetitive phrases to aid the developing fluency of students beginning to read independently. It could also serve slightly older reluctant and struggling readers." -Bobbee Pennington, Bryan Public Library, TX" Copyright 2006 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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The busy, buzzy beastie introduced in Hi! Fly Guy (2005) accompanies his best bud Buzz to school, and enters fly heaven. Which is to say, he discovers the lunchroom run by the esteemed Roz, a fine cook who isn't above rewarding a bug who can say her name with a delicious cup of chicken bones and fish heads in sour milk. But when Roz is fired in favor of Miss Muzzle, whose idea of a nourishing lunch is burnt peas and turnips it's up to the resourceful Fly Guy to return the favor. Arnold's pop-eyed, big-headed cartoon figures provide the proper comedic air for this brief episode, which is arranged in chapters and wrapped in an eye-catching, glittery cover. Fledgling readers will cheer the intrepid insect on as he engineers Roz's return, and is last seen basking in a redolent bowl of garbage soup. Keep on buzzing, Fly Guy. (Easy reader. 6-8) - Kirkus

K-Gr. 3. There's definitely a buzz in the school lunchroom. It's Fly Guy, Buzz's pet fly. Fly Guy loves the dirty dishes, the smelly mop, and the garbage cans. When he meets Roz, the lunch lady, she pronounces, No flies in the lunchroom! Then Fly Guy endears himself to her by saying her name, Rozzz, and she feeds him treats (fish heads in sour milk). Sadly, Roz is fired after her boss demands that the lunchroom be fly-free. She is replaced by Miss Muzzle, who makes burnt peas and turnips. Everyone misses Roz, and Buzz makes a plan. After Fly Guy boinks Miss Muzzle on the nose, she tries to swat him and makes such a mess that she is fired, and Roz returns the next day. Arnold's golf ball eyed kids and fly are amusingly and comically exaggerated. Together with the zippy metallic cover and short, simple text, which is divided into three short chapters, they add up to a fly-by delight. Julie Cummins - School Library Journal

How's this for a backstory? "A boy had a pet fly. The fly was named Fly Guy. Fly Guy could say the boy's name — Buzz!" And, with that, Arnold zooms right into this sequel to the 2006 Geisel Honor Book Hi! Fly Guy. This time, Fly Guy and Buzz go to school, where Fly Guy shows off more of his genius by not only learning phonics (does, fuzz, and was) but also moving right up to the application level when he goes to the lunchroom and addresses Roz, the cook. Roz's small act of kindness (she lets Fly Guy eat chicken bones and fish heads in sour milk) is unrewarded when she's fired. But Fly Guy, with Buzz's help, gets his revenge (and more practice in phonics) by outwitting her replacement, Miss Muzzle, known in flyspeak as "Mizz Muzz." The cartoon illustrations of Fly Guy, with his, well, bug eyes, are a welcome departure from the sweet and fuzzy animals that populate so many beginning readers, and this manic story, told in three chapters with simple vocabulary and repetitive phrases, creates an energy for reading. Expect a lot of buzz over this one. B.C.

Tedd Arnold
Tedd Arnold is the illustrator and, with Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, co-author of the Noodlehead series, a humorous, award-winning, comic-book-style series for ages six to nine. The series includes Noodelhead Nightmares, Noodlesheads Find Something Fishy, and Noodleheads See the Future, which received a Theodor Seuss Honor Award for books for new readers. He is also author and illustrator of the widely popular Fly Guy books. Tedd lives in New York and Florida.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780439639040
Lexile Measure
360
Guided Reading Level
H
Publisher
Cartwheel Books
Publication date
March 01, 2006
Series
Fly Guy
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV002140 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Insects, Spiders, etc.
JUV002190 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Pets
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
Library of Congress categories
Schools
Flies
School lunchrooms, cafeterias, etc
Delaware Diamonds Award
Nominee 2006 - 2007
Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award
Honor Book 2007 - 2007
Garden State Children's Book Awards
Winner 2009 - 2009

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