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Author Albee, Sarah.

Title Bugged : how insects changed history / Sarah Albee ; illustrated by Robert Leighton.

Publication Info. New York : Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury, 2014.
©2014

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 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 595.7 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J 595.7 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  J595.7 A    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 595.7 ALB    DUE 04-08-24
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 595.7 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J 595.7 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Children's Department  J 595.7 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Juvenile Nonfiction  J 595.7 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 595.7 ALBEE    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 595.7 ALB    Check Shelf

Description 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-162) and index.
Summary Chronicles the rivalry between the human and insect worlds that draws on myriad disciplines to explain the varying roles that bugs have played in building and toppling empires as well as the bug stories behind infamous disasters.
Contents The insect facts of life -- The horrible history of human hygiene -- The land of silk and honey -- Bad-news bugs -- The earliest epidemics -- Close encounters of the ancient kind -- Medieval microbes -- More thinking but still stinking: the Renaissance -- Travel troubles -- It's all fun and games until someone loses an isle -- How revolutionary! -- Dastardly diseases and demented dictators -- The Nineteenth Century: crawling toward a cure -- The nitty gritty about the itty bitty: germs discovered at last -- Twentieth-century pox -- The craze about sprays -- Now what?
Subject Insects -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Human-animal relationships -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Insects -- History.
Human-animal relationships -- History.
Added Author Leighton, Robert, 1960- illustrator.
Added Title How insects changed history
ISBN 9780802734228 (pbk.)
0802734227 (pbk.)
9780802734235 (library edition)
0802734235 (library edition)
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