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Title: The Fire Bug Connection (Eco Mystery) by Jean Craighead George ISBN: 0-06-440474-9 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Does this book bug you?
Comment: Mystery and ecology collide--with varying fascinating, tedious, informative, thrilling, and confusing results--in Jean Craighead George's Eco-Mysteries series. The author of JULIE OF THE WOLVES, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, and nearly one hundred other distinguished nature stories for young readers, Ms. George also wrote four mysteries--WHO REALLY KILLED COCK ROBIN?, THE CASE OF THE MISSING CUTTHROATS, THE MISSING 'GATOR OF GUMBO LIMBO, and this book, THE FIRE BUG CONNECTION. All include details into our environment and the factors that threaten to destroy parts of it. THE FIRE BUG CONNECTION falls a bit short of the other books in its series for a number of reasons. The story concerns a young entomologist named Maggie, and her enemy-turned-partner Mitch, as they try to solve the mystery of the deaths of Maggie's birthday present, a group of radiant fire bugs from the Czech Republic, at Maggie's home in a Maine Biological Research Station--Bug Camp. Mitch is convinced that global warming committed the crimes; Maggie immediately dismisses this idea (I never quite understood why). Acid rain is a factor, too, as well as chemicals that may exist in the paper in the fire bugs' containers, and, finally, the most unusual culprits, a raven and a balsam fir tree. The ending of the story seems overly complicated, but this may not be so for more scientific mature readers who, like Maggie and Mitch, know about the existence of many kinds of chemicals and where they can be found. I found myself concentrating less on the mystery of the destruction of the fire bugs and more on the amusing details around Bug Camp--Maggie's friends: a clan of bats, a wasp, and a spider--and how Mitch ever figured how to get rid of a computer virus without using a special disinfectant program. Anyone who is interested in the tiny but amazing world of insects and other "creepy" but splendid critters like ravens and bats, or anyone whose favorite things in school include science and reading mysteries, will find this book enjoyable, despite its occasional shortcomings.
Rating: 2
Summary: The Fire Bug Connection
Comment: The Fire Bug Connection wasn't all that interesting to me. There were two parts that I liked; When the bats could tell their batlets apart, and when the fire bugs died, they went 'POP'. I dislike this book because it felt like we were reading a science text book, more then a novel. I think that it was interesting when the bats could tell their batlets apart because I thought that bats were dumb mammals that were creepy, ugly,and their only intenisions are to freak people out. Now I know that they are much smarter then they look. I also thought that when the bugs went 'POP', it was neat. They died because a bug could die from going through metamorphoses. The reason that they died was because the sand paper in their cage had a hormone in it that a fir balsim tree had in it. The book felt like a science book I think because it had all these technical terms and I got confused alot of the time with all the creatures names, and pet names and everytying. Thats another reason why I dislike the novel. I give The Fire Bug Connection only two stars because I only thought that two parts of the book was interesting. I also didnt prefer the book because it seemed like reading a science text book, more then a novel. That's why I only gave it two stars.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Firebug Connection
Comment: The main character in this book is a girl named Maggie. Every summer she goes to bug camp. A boy named Mitch also attends the camp. Maggie doesn't like him and thinks he's a pest.
Her mom, who studies the effect of acid rain on trees also goes to bug camp. Mr. Capek, another graduate scientist, comes to bug camp. It's Maggies birthday when he arrives so he gives her a present: a collection of firebugs.
Maggie loves them because of their colors. She promises to make Mr. capek a pillow, which is stuffed with pine neddles from a balsam fir. Mr. Capek, Maggies mom, and a bunch of others go on a field expedition.
While they are away Maggies firebugs pop and die. She notices that they won't grow up and calls them " peter pans". Maggie suspects that its the ravens in the area that caused the problem since they mean death in Mr. Capek's country.
Mitch does many tests on Maggies animals including Areaneus the spider, Myotis the bat, and a wasp.
Finally, Maggie suspects that the paper in the bug cage is to blame. She wonders if the chlorine in the paper was the culprit. Mitch takes a bug and puts chlorine on it but its not a good test, because chlorine will kill any bug. Then Mitch finds out it was a hormone that wouldn't let the bugs grow. Since it was the hormone the mystery had been solved.
This was not such a good book because of many reasons. It all took place in the same setting without much excitment. I like mysteries but not this kind.
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Title: The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo (Eco Mystery) by Jean Craighead George ISBN: 006440434X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 19 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Who Really Killed Cock Robin? (Eco Mystery) by Jean Craighead George ISBN: 0064404056 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Case of the Missing Cutthroats (Eco Mystery) by Jean Craighead George ISBN: 0064406474 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 31 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: One Day in the Woods by Jean Craighead George ISBN: 0064420175 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.25 |
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Title: Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 by Stephanie Harvey ISBN: 1571100725 Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.25 |
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