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| The Fire Bug Connection (Ecological Mystery) | 
| Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 627050
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 0064404749
EAN: 9780064404747
ASIN: 0064404749
Publication Date: February 3, 1995
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"When a raven, flies at you, there will, be a murder." That's what Maggie's grandmother once told her, and the longer twelve-year-old Maggie stays with her parents at the Biological Research Station--or Bug Camp, as she calls it--the more she believes it. Soon after a raven's appearance, something strange happens to Maggie's beautiful new fire bugs. Instead of molting into the next stage, the bugs grow grotesquely large and seem to be doomed. Is global warming the culprit? Acid rain? Or...murder? One thing is certain--it's an eco mystery, and Maggie, with the help of Mitch, a young computer whiz, must try to track down the killer.In this environmental whodunit, 12-year-old Maggie can't figure out why her exotic and beautiful new fire bugs are dying so suddenly. Is it global warming, acid rain, or murder? With the help a young computer whiz, Maggie tracks down each ecological clue in a mystery that is `fascinating and (especially for budding naturalists) inspiring.'K.
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A great book September 30, 2005
It was a good book. Even though it is about bugs, and I hate bugs. But it is still good. It is basicly about a girl who studies bugs and has to watch a boy named, Mitch. The characters are pretty active. They don't really hang about bugs and insects. There's phantom along with the fact that the story tells so much more about science than a regular book. It is a gret book for people who are studying science. This is a popular book and it has many true facts. It will help people undrstand the main idea of science.
Does this book bug you? April 12, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
 The Fire Bug Connection February 23, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
The fire bug connection February 18, 2000
This book is about a thirteen year old girl named Maggie. The setting is at bug camp. Then she got a present for her thirteenth birthday by a guy named Capek. The present was fire bugs. Then they started to die and she wanted to find out what was killing them. She was thinking it was paper from the trees, so then she went to the mill to see if the trees were making them die. She thought the trees was killing them because they think there is a hormone in the trees and there was a hormone in the trees. The hormone was stoping them from growing and then they eventually died (poped).
The fire bug connection February 18, 2000
In this book the main character is named Maggie. She goes to bug camp and meets a boy named Mitch. She thinks he is a big pest. Her mother studies the trees. A man named Mr. Capek comes to her moms lab. They go to study the trees. A raven comes and Maggies fire bugs started dying. She thinks it's a raven because in Capeks country they mean death. They go to the mill and find out that it is a hormone that turned the fire bugs into 'Peter Pans', which means they die. I give The Fire Bug Connection a three star rating. I give this because a rather boring book. It didn't interest me very much. It would have been more interesting if there was more drama, or interesting things happening; not just bugs.
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