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The Fire Bug Connection
An Ecological Mystery
By George, Jean Craighead
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06021-490-6
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1993.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1993
Gr 5-7 Maggie Mercer has a passion for bugs, a passion she gets to indulge every summer when she accompanies her scientist parents to a mountain research laboratory in Maine. While her mother and father study soil and plants, she collects insects and observes the behavior of a rich assortment of wildlife. When a graduate student from Czechoslovakia gives her a terrarium full of exotic, brightly hued fire bugs for her 12th birthday, Maggie is ecstatic. Unfortunately, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
