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The bug girl : a true story Cover Image Book Book

The bug girl : a true story / by the Bug Girl herself, Sophia Spencer with Margaret McNamara ; illustrated by Kerascoët.

Spencer, Sophia, (author.). McNamara, Margaret, (author.). Kerascoët, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Sophia Spencer has loved bugs ever since a butterfly landed on her shoulder--and wouldn't leave!--at a butterfly conservancy when she was only two-and-a-half years old. In preschool and kindergarten, Sophia was thrilled to share what she knew about grasshoppers (her very favorite insects), as well as ants and fireflies . . . but by first grade, not everyone shared her enthusiasm. Some students bullied her, and Sophia stopped talking about bugs altogether. When Sophia's mother wrote to an entomological society looking for a bug scientist to be a pen pal for her daughter, she and Sophie were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response--letters, photos and videos came flooding in. Using the hashtag BugsR4Girls, scientists tweeted hundreds of times to tell Sophia to keep up her interest in bugs--and it worked!

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525645931
  • ISBN: 9780525645948
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2020]

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Target Audience Note:
Decoding demand: 71 (high) Semantic demand: 82 (very high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile.

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Subject: Spencer, Sophia.
Insects > Juvenile literature.
Entomology > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Informational works.
Picture books.
Personal narratives.

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In addition to being passionate about bugs and all living creatures, Sophia Spencer loves climbing trees and exploring the world of math and science. She lives in Canada and is in the 4th grade. The MagicTree House series are currently her favorite books.

Margaret McNamara is the author of The Mr. Tiffin Classroom series including, The Dinosaur Expert, A Poem in Your Pocket,The Apple Orchard Riddle, and How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?. She is also the author of Eliza, The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton called "lovely," in a starred review from Booklist. Ms. McNamara lives in New York City. Visit her on the Web at margaretmcnamara.net.

Kerascoët, a husband-and-wife team, are the illustrators of the picture book, I Walk with Vanessa which received three starred reviews and was named The Best Picture Book of 2018 that Champions Kindness by Parents Magazine. They are also the illustrators of Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai which was highly acclaimed and a New York Times bestseller. Visit them at kerascoet.fr.

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