BACKYARD GARDENS: THE COMPLETE DUOLOGY - Book #1): "BACKYARD GARDENS" & Book #2): "BACKYARD GARDENS 2"

by Frank Principato

1): BACKYARD At the age of nine, P.B. Jellystone, now a very wealthy, eccentric industrialist, had discovered the crash-landing of a purple meteorite near his family's backwoods farm in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Upon further discovering that the purple meteorite contains a purple goop from within, which smells just like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then came the discovery that if you eat the purple goop, you start shrinking down to a mere 1/4-inch tall! Years later, when multi-billionaire Dr. Jellystone invites a young elementary school science teacher, Miss Rampling, and her students to be the first ones chosen to visit "Backyard Gardens", his theme park...which is, actually, in his own backyard...so as to (before opening it, eventually, to the public) test the amusement park, THE REAL ADVENTURE BEGINS!!! While Dr. Jellystone assures everyone that the facility's safe, they, during the preview, find out otherwise after a power failure, due to their tour being interrupted by a group of psychopathic terrorists who take over the park, and everyone in it! And its very large insects, in the various kinds, run loose, ferociously, putting everyone's lives in danger, as they're now broken free and going on the hunt! Now, Miss Rampling and her pupils' miniaturized selves face incredible...diminutive, but not really diminutive!...and rampaging dangers, as they venture out, being forced to flee for their lives, and try to make their way to the relative safety of home, by traveling through the dense and perilous jungle-like landscapes of Dr. Jellystone's own now-immense backyard, while Dr. Jellystone fights to search for them in this hostile environment, where nearly everything T-R-O-U-B-L-E! As they're inadvertently becoming embroiled in a hostage situation, can they exit the green maze of thick grass in one piece, while braving running-loose gigantic bugs, a sprinkler, a runaway lawnmower, sadistic extremists, and much, much more?

2): BACKYARD GARDENS 2: Four hours after total disaster struck in the nearly-catastrophic events of BACKYARD GARDENS, five insects (a mosquito, a tsetse fly, an Asian giant hornet, a harvester ant, and a red imported fire ant) have gradually grown at such dizzying paces to enormous size, due to extremely dangerous, species of mutant aliens that are out to invade Earth. Something is definitely wrong! THEY START GROWING, AND GROWING, AND GROWING, AND JUST KEEP RIGHT ON GROWING SOME MORE!!! With those very enlarged insects having now escaped from the failure of Backyard Gardens amusement park, and creating terror, as they wander and roam free all over Pennsylvania, where people are scrambling and scrambling for their lives, humbled, but nutty, Dr. Jellystone wants to redeem himself for his past mistakes, by putting together a team of fellow entomologists, much like himself, who are brave enough in a race against time to reverse these many-stories tall and-still-topping giants of insects' effects. However, another assembled and much larger team of more insolent entomologists are hell-bent to, covertly, round up mercenaries from both the local police and the U.S. Military forces that are ordered that the colossal insects be caught, sedated, and transported to a secret location for another agenda. Something more sinister in mind! But life always finds a way! Will both teams succeed for their own survival? Or will another tragedy occur, followed by even more ominous threats? Will Dr. Jellystone...ambitious, and wacky as he is!...be able to stop those gigantic insects' overgrown processes, before they level "The Keystone State"? And who can harness the raw strength of five ferocious insects that are gargantuan in size, and with nothing standing in their huge way? NOW, THE CHASE IS ON!!!

215 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 23, 2025