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Author Burns, Loree Griffin.

Title Beetle busters : a rogue insect and the people who track it / Loree Griffin Burns ; photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
©2014

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 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 595.76 BURNS    Check Shelf
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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  J500 SCI (SCIENTISTS IN THE FIELD)    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J595.76 BUR    DUE 05-13-24
 Burlington Public Library - Children's Department  J595.7648 BURNS    Check Shelf
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Description 64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Series Scientists in the field
Scientists in the field.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 61) and index.
Audience Ages 1-14.
Grade 7 to 8.
Contents Prologue: the cut -- The beetle -- A life in rings -- The trees -- Tree ID -- The team -- Beetle busting -- The forest -- More beetle busting -- The data -- The hard truth.
Summary This book about the tree-killing Asian longhorned beetle reveals how the help of everyday people, their neighborhoods, teams of beetle-sniffing dogs, and a nationwide effort from bug scientists to tree doctors are working to eradicate this invasive pest.
Study Program Reading Counts RC 6-8 9.4 64667.
2.0 Accelerated Reader AR 7.3 169508.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.3 2 169508.
Awards A Junior Library Guild Selection.
Study Program Reading Counts RC 9.4 5.0. OSW
Subject Asian longhorned beetle -- Juvenile literature.
Beetles -- Juvenile literature.
Asian longhorned beetle. (OCoLC)fst01737645
Beetles. (OCoLC)fst00829832
Asian longhorned beetles.
Beetles.
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Literature.
Added Author Harasimowicz, Ellen, photographer.
ISBN 9780547792675 (hbk.)
0547792670 (hbk.)
9781328895721 (Paperback)
1328895726 (Paperback)
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