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The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
Contributor(s): Griffin Burns, Loree (Author), Harasimowicz, Ellen (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0544003268     ISBN-13: 9780544003262
Publisher: Clarion Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Zoology
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Insects, Spiders, Etc.
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Agriculture
Dewey: 638.130
Age Level: 10-13
Grade Level: 5-8
Lexile Measure: 1120 NC (Nonconforming Text)
Guided Reading: W (Grade 6)
Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.9" W x 10.9" L (0.80 lbs) 80 pages
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 136418
Reading Level: 7.5   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Without honey bees the world would be a very different place. There would be no sweet, delicious honey, no beeswax for creams and candles, and--worst of all--barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So just imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg's horror when, in 2006, he discovered twenty million of his buzzing charges had vanished without a trace. Those missing bees became the first reported casualties of a mysterious scourge that continues to plague honey bee populations today.

In The Hive Detectives, Loree Griffin Burns profiles bee wranglers and bee scientists across the country who have been working to understand colony collapse disorder, or CCD: the Hackenburgs, who move their three thousand beehives from coast to coast in order to pollinate crops; Mary Duane, who raises bees and bottles blue ribbon honey; and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Jeffrey Pettis, Diana Cox-Foster, and Maryann Frazier, who study bees from every possible angle in an attempt to discover what is killing them.

In this dramatic and enlightening chronicle of a modern honey bee catastrophe, readers explore the lives of the fuzzy, buzzing insects we ought to love... and join the human quest to protect them.

"A fascinating book from the Scientists in the Field series." --Booklist, starred review


Contributor Bio(s): Harasimowicz, Ellen: -

ELLEN HARASIMOWICZ is a freelance photojournalist who has photographed professionally since 2003. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and Scientific American.

She photographs primarily for independent schools in Massachusetts, but her real love is travel. Her travels, on assignment and for personal projects, have taken her to more than 30 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, the Caribbean and Central America. Her love for travel stems from her curiosity, which led her to the world of children's literature.

Since 2006, Ellen has illustrated four children's books with her photographs, including three middle-grade books with Loree Burns: The Hive Detectives, Citizen Scientist, and Beetle Buster.

Ellen lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Paul; her work can be seen at ellenharasimowicz.com. Follow Ellen on Twitter @ellharas.

Griffin Burns, Loree: -

LOREE GRIFFIN BURNS, Ph.D., did her doctoral at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The author of Beetle Busters, Tracking Trash, and The Hive Detectives, she is an award-winning writer whose books for young people have won many accolades, including ALA Notable designations, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Award, an IRA Children's Book Award, a Green Earth Book Award and two Science Books & Films (SB&F) Prizes.

Loree holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and her books draw heavily on both her passion for science and nature and her experiences as a working scientist. She lives with her husband and their three kids in a farmhouse in central New England, where she gardens, keeps chickens, and writes about science and scientists. She likes to think that one day she'll fill the big old barn on their property with horses.

Learn more about Loree at loreegriffinburns.com and follow her on Twitter @loreegburns.


 
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