Fizzopolis: The Trouble with Fuzzwonker Fizz (Fizzopolis, 1)

Welcome to Fizzopolis! Home to the world’s greatest soda pop, Fuzzwonker Fizz, and the Fizzies―fuzzy, fizzy creatures that live only in Fizzopolis. Join Harold and Floyd in this wacky new illustrated series from bestselling author Patrick Carman and Emmy Award–winning illustrator Brian Sheesley.

Harold Fuzzwonker is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary fizzy friend, Floyd. But Floyd’s a secret―like a top super-secret. Harold must protect him, as well as the family recipe for Fuzzwonker Fizz, from the evil Snood Candy Factory. But it’s hard to guard a secret when he’s your best good buddy and he always escapes from your backpack!

Harold chronicles his epic adventures―with a little artistic help from Floyd―that are sure to have Fuzzwonker Fizz squirting out your nose!

• A Secret in a Backpack: Harold’s new friend is four inches tall, green, and loves to cause trouble. Keeping Floyd the Fizzy hidden from his teacher and classmates is an epic challenge, especially when he won’t stay put!
• Mad Scientist Shenanigans: From a secret underground lab to a soda pop that creates record-breaking burps, Harold’s dad invents the wildest, weirdest stuff imaginable.
• Archenemy in the Classroom: The nasty Snood Candy Factory wants the Fuzzwonker Fizz recipe, and their head spy is Harold’s fourth-grade archenemy, Garvin Snood!
• Best Friends Adventure: A ten-year-old daredevil and a tiny fizzy creature become an unstoppable team against bullies, boring teachers, and terrible-tasting candy.

Patrick Carman is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books, including the acclaimed series the Land of Elyon and Floors and the teen superhero novel Thirteen Days to Midnight. A multimedia pioneer, Patrick authored The Black Circle, the fifth title in the 39 Clues series, and the Dark Eden, Skeleton Creek, Trackers, Fizzopolis, and Voyagers series. An enthusiastic reading advocate, Patrick has visited more than a thousand schools, developed village library projects in Central America, and created author outreach programs for communities. He lives in Walla Walla, Washington, with his family. You can visit him online at www.patrickcarman.com.