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Insects Are My Life (Orchard Paperbacks), Megan Mcdonal

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Author: Megan McDonald, Paul Brett JohnsonFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Orchard BooksISBN-10: 053107093X
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780531070932
Publication Year: 1997Subject: Science & Nature
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Language: EnglishSpecial Attributes: --
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Amanda Frankenstein loves everything about bugs: examining them, collecting them, protecting them, even imitating their behavior. Unfortunately, her family, friends, and schoolmates have no understanding or appreciation of Amanda's insect obsession. Luckily, Amanda meets a new friend who understands her feelings about bugs, because she feels the same way about reptiles. Watercolor and colored pencil illustrations accompany the text.
No one at home or school understands Amanda Frankenstein's devotion to insects until she meets Maggie.

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Series:Orchard Paperbacks
Illustrator:Paul Brett Johnson

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Height:10.3 in.
Width:8.8 in.
Thickness:0.2 in.
Weight:4.8 oz.

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Amanda Frankenstein's enthusiasm for insects annoys family and friends and definitely sets her apart, until she meets a girl named Maggie, who is crazy for reptiles.

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Pigtailed and bespectacled and with a freckled, round face and turned-up nose Amanda Frankenstein looks like a junior pedant. And perhaps she is. Crazy about insects, the strong-willed girl dumps her brother's fireflies out of the jar and informs him, "Bugs are people, too, you know." Amanda amasses a huge collection of bugs ("Dead ones, of course"), is proud of the number of mosquito bites on her leg (22) and utters the dramatic claim stated in the book's title. Incessantly talking about (and even acting like) various insects, she antagonizes her brother and classmates. The plot wears thin, although some of Amanda's antics are engaging and many of McDonald's (Is This a House for Hermit Crab?) lines are quite funny (when the aspiring entomologist puts her feet on the kitchen table because, she announces, butterflies have taste buds in their feet, her mother orders her to "please keep your taste buds on the floor"). Johnson's (The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down) animated watercolor, colored-pencil and pastel illustrations depend on exaggeration for their humor; even so, they are truer to life than the text in their depiction of ordinary feelings. Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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K-Gr 3 Amanda loves bugs, a fact that no one else seems to appreciate. She examines them, collects them, protects them, and imitates their behavior. She even gets into trouble at home and at school because of them. Kids tease her, and one in particular, Victor, makes her life miserable. In one humorous exchange she calls him ``... a stinkbug on the leaf of life.'' Then she discovers Maggie, a classmate who has a passion of her own reptiles. Factual tidbits slipped surrepetitiously into the appealing text add information to this spirited tale. It's refreshing to have nonsqueamish female characters who are willing to take on all adversaries in defense of their causes. Full-page and vignette illustrations rendered in soft-hued watercolors, colored pencils, and pastels complement and add humor to the story. They are energetic, engaging, and entomologically correct. Insects Are My Life is an almost-perfect specimen. Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libraries, NE
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Insects Are My Life (Orchard Paperbacks)

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 053107093X
Title : Insects Are My Life (Orchard Paperbacks)
EAN : 9780531070932
Authors : Megan Mcdonald
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Scholastic
Publication Date : 1997-09-01
Pages : 32
List Price (MSRP) : 6.95
Height : 0.0800 inches
Width : 8.7000 inches
Length : 10.0000 inches
Weight : 0.2600 pounds
Keywords : Picture Books, General, General AAS, Nonfiction, McDonald, Megan, Paperback, Printed Books, Ages 4-8
Condition : Acceptable

COVER IS IN WORN CONDITION a lot of bent corners

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