Title: The fire bug connection
Subtitle: an ecological mystery
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Ecology, Insects, Science, Experiments, Mystery and detective stories, Juvenile fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Children's fiction, Ecology, fiction