Cicadas! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle, Meryl Henderson Ampersand Press - Suzanne Collins

- Suzanne Collins

Often scorned by neighbors for her family's erratic and eccentric behavior--such as her father Johnny's taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy's habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce--no one

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Cicadas! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle, Meryl Henderson Ampersand Press - Suzanne CollinsDiscover why cicadas are all the BUZZ. Every year, annual cicadas emerge and pierce the air with their buzzing calls. Also every year, at least one brood of thirteen year or seventeen year cicadas emerges in some part of the eastern or central United States. In the spring of 2011, a giant brood will hatch in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South