The fire bug connection
an ecological mystery
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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.
FictionEcologyInsectsScienceExperimentsMystery and detective storiesJuvenile fictionDetective and mystery storiesChildren's fictionEcology, fiction