Swim the Fly, Book 1

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Candlewick Press, 2009 - Juvenile Fiction - 345 pages
Three adolescent boys with a single goal: see a reallive naked girl. The result? Razor-sharp, rapid-fi re, and raunchy, of course. And beyond hilarious.

Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time — quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date. But catching a girl in the buff starts to look easy compared to Matt's other summertime aspiration: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) as a way to impress Kelly West, the sizzling new star of the swim team. In the spirit of Hollywood’s blockbuster comedies, screenwriter-turned-YA-novelist Don Calame unleashes a true ode to the adolescent male: characters who are side-splittingly funny, sometimes crude, yet always full of heart.
 

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Contents

Section 1
7
Section 2
20
Section 3
26
Section 4
39
Section 5
47
Section 6
58
Section 7
66
Section 8
70
Section 18
184
Section 19
197
Section 20
203
Section 21
207
Section 22
237
Section 23
254
Section 24
262
Section 25
264

Section 9
80
Section 10
86
Section 11
90
Section 12
103
Section 13
112
Section 14
122
Section 15
154
Section 16
162
Section 17
180
Section 26
281
Section 27
286
Section 28
295
Section 29
305
Section 30
325
Section 31
334
Section 32
341
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About the author (2009)

Don Calame is a screenwriter whose film projects include EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH and HOUNDED. Of his many prior occupations, he says his most satisfying was teaching elementary school for four years in Los Angeles, where he received the LAUSD District Intern Golden Apple Award and a Los Angeles Education Partnership Grant. He lives in British Columbia.

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