• Age: 6 to 9
• Grade: 3 to 12

This third and final adventure featuring crime-solving pair Bee and Flea explores how the backyard critters adapt and prepare for winter

The weather is turning cold, and Bee notices that the animals in the big backyard are acting … odd. Flea is uncharacteristically sleepy, the yard is strangely quiet, and then there’s the commotion at the compost heap—a huge, round, orange object is looming over the earthworms!

Bee and her new friend Fuzz, a woolly bear caterpillar, can’t convince a very tired Flea to help, so Bee turns to her old bee colony for back up. She soon learns, however, that there’s no real emergency at all, and that the changes to the yard, including Flea’s sleepiness, are perfectly normal adaptations for the coming winter.

This latest addition to the hilarious chapter book series follows F.L.E.A. agent Bee and her new friend Fuzz on an exciting adventure full of STEM content that introduces readers to seasonal changes and animal life cycles.

ANNA HUMPHREY dreamt of being a writer since she was a teenager, and those dreams came true with the publication of her first YA novel, Mission (Un)Popular. Clara Humble and the Kitten Caboodle is the third and final book in the three-book Clara Humble series. Anna lives with her family in Kitchener, Ontario.

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Mike Deas est auteur-illustrateur de bandes dessinées, telles que Tank and Fizz and The Case of the Tentacle Terror. Il signe aussi les illustrations de la série Graphic Guide Adventure. Sa passion pour l'illustration a été entretenue tout au long de son enfance à l'île Saltspring, en Colombie-Britannique où il habite encore aujourd'hui.

MIKE DEAS is an author/illustrator of graphic novels, most recently Tank and Fizz and the Case of the Tentacle Terror. He is the illustrator of the Graphic Guide Adventure series. His love for illustrative storytelling comes from an early love of reading and drawing while growing up on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Visit him online at www.deasillustration.com.

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"Humphrey cleverly centers a scientific concept in this heartwarming, funny, and pitch perfect ­series."

School Library Journal

"Woven throughout the 11 easy-to-read chapters are lots of scientific facts ... A seriously fun series sendoff."

Canadian Review of Materials

"A brilliant early chapter book ... This particular series would also make an excellent read aloud for elementary-aged students when discussing character development, plot development and suspense."

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