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Bedbugs / Joyce Jeffries.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Freaky freeloaders: Bugs that feed on peoplePublisher: New York : PowerKids Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781499407426
  • 1499407424
  • 9781499407464
  • 1499407467
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Waiting in your bed -- A closer look -- A bedbug's life cycle -- They need to feed -- Where do they live? -- Time to eat! -- A bedbug bite -- Looking for bedbugs -- No more bedbugs! -- Pesky parasites.
Summary: "Bedbugs get their name from the fact that they like to hide where people sleep. Then, they come out in the middle of the night and make a meal of human blood! Readers learn many icky facts about these bugs that support science curriculum topics, such as life cycles and relationships between parasites and hosts. They also learn what happens to a person's body when they get a bedbug bite. Helpful tips on finding and getting rid of bedbugs are included, too. Vivid photographs of bedbugs seem to crawl right off the page!"--Provided by the publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 595.754 J47 Available 33111008878288
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Bedbugs get their name from the fact that they like to hide where people sleep. Then, they come out in the middle of the night and make a meal of human blood! Readers learn many icky facts about these bugs that support science curriculum topics, such as life cycles and relationships between parasites and hosts. They also learn what happens to a person's body when they get a bedbug bite. Helpful tips on finding and getting rid of bedbugs are included, too. Vivid photographs of bedbugs seem to crawl right off the page!

Includes index.

Waiting in your bed -- A closer look -- A bedbug's life cycle -- They need to feed -- Where do they live? -- Time to eat! -- A bedbug bite -- Looking for bedbugs -- No more bedbugs! -- Pesky parasites.

"Bedbugs get their name from the fact that they like to hide where people sleep. Then, they come out in the middle of the night and make a meal of human blood! Readers learn many icky facts about these bugs that support science curriculum topics, such as life cycles and relationships between parasites and hosts. They also learn what happens to a person's body when they get a bedbug bite. Helpful tips on finding and getting rid of bedbugs are included, too. Vivid photographs of bedbugs seem to crawl right off the page!"--Provided by the publisher.

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