Title: The Burying Beetle
Description: Gussie was born with a rare heart disease. To reduce the strain on her health, she and her mother move to the Cornish coast. There, she learns about the Burying Beetle, which buries animals by digging away the earth beneath them. As she searches the countryside for the insect she is forced to confront her mortality. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Subjects: Insects, Heart, Patients, Diseases, Fiction, Children's fiction, Children, diseases, fiction, Adolescence, fiction, Fiction, general, JUVENILE FICTION, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM, General, European