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2) Crickwing
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A lonely cockroach named Crickwing has a creative idea that saves the day for the leaf-cutter ants when their fierce forest enemies attack them.
7) Du iz tak?
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Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?
9) Stop, thief!
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Max the dog sets out to find the thief who has been stealing the farmer's carrots, berries, beans, and cherries, but the culprit may not be who Max thinks he is.
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In this graphic novel twist on the classic fairy tale, free-spirited Grasshopper lives for the moment, rehearsing with his band, while Ant is planning for an apocalypse. When disaster strikes, Ant takes shelter in his bunker and Grasshopper is left lurch, until Ant rescues him and together they teach each other important life lessons.
14) Bug catchers
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Best friends and fellow bug catchers Dirt and Bugsy gather supplies and make a structure to shelter their insects from an incoming storm.
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Eleven-year-old Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
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In pursuit of a strange butterfly for her science assignment, Kelly gets lost in the woods, and with only a mason jar, a butterfly net, and a small lunch, she must figure out which direction will lead her back to the cabin and her friends--and somehow elude the black bear who has taken a disturbing interest in her.
17) Max's bug
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When Max's new tiny bug friend gets sick after playing together all day, Ruby suggests taking her to the vet.
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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of an elite group of literary geniuses secretly working on America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy" in 1865, puts his career on the line when he teams up with outcast police officer Nicholas Rey in an attempt to find a killer who is patterning his crimes on descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's "Inferno."