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The fire bug connection an ecological mystery

Twelve-year-old Maggie receives European fire bugs for her birthday, but when they fail to metamorphose and grow grossly large and explode instead, she uses scientific reasoning to determine the cause of their strange death.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1993.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Insects > Juvenile fiction. Science > Experiments > Juvenile fiction. Ecology > Juvenile fiction. Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	Twelve-year-old Maggie receives European fire bugs for her birthday, but when they fail to metamorphose and grow grossly large and explode instead, she uses scientific reasoning to determine the cause of their strange death.
Physical Description:	148 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0060214902 : 0060214910 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:	Jean Craighead George was born on July 2, 1919 in Washington, D.C. She received degrees in English and science from Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a reporter for the International News Service. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps for The Washington Post. During her lifetime, she wrote over 100 novels including My Side of the Mountain, which was a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves, which won the Newbery Medal, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack. She also wrote two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography entitled Journey Inward. In 1991, she became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature. She died on May 15, 2012 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography)