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Squirmy Horsehair Worms: A Zombie-creating Parasite by
Series: Strange Little Creatures, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 2,010. Language: English. Originally Published: September 11, 2017 by Michael A. Franco. Categories: Nonfiction » Children's Books » Curiosities & Wonders
The horsehair worm is swallowed in larval form by an insect host. As the worm grows and matures inside the insect, the insect host seems to surrender its will to the worm. Three months later, the host, almost zombie-like, is compelled to seek out water. When the insect enters the water, the mature horsehair worm emerges from the host’s body wall---as a writhing, knotting, mass of hair-like worm.
Jerusalem Crickets, the Child of the Earth by
Series: Strange Little Creatures, Book 2. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 1,960. Language: English. Originally Published: June 12, 2017 by Michael A. Franco. Categories: Nonfiction » Children's Books » Reference
This relative of the cricket has been called ‘Woh-tzi-Neh’ by native Americans, which translates as "skull insect" or “old, bald-headed man.” Jerusalem Crickets attract attention because they’re large insects, and have a round, almost human-looking, baldhead: almost like a little baby face with a cricket body!
The Huge, Empty Box by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 1,710. Language: English. Originally Published: February 17, 2016 by Michael A. Franco. Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Imagination & Play, Fiction » Children’s books » Activity Books
Misty and Tyler were so bored!--until father brought them something left over from work. Guess what it was and what they made it into?
DUST MITES Nature’s Garbage Collectors by
Series: Strange Little Creatures, Book 1. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 2,180. Language: English. Originally Published: November 19, 2015 by Michael A. Franco. Categories: Nonfiction » Children's Books » Science & Nature / Biology
Dust mites are tiny, almost microscopic little creatures that live in things where you spend lots of time-- like your bed, your pillow, on the comfy couch, and the shaggy rug. They are always hungry, but you’ll never guess what they hunger for, and what they munch on all the time?
Were You Born Stupid? Tales of an Hispanic-American Family by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 95,810. Language: English. Originally Published: August 2, 2015 by Michael A. Franco. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » Entertainment » Humor & satire » Topic / marriage & family
“Were you born stupid?” is a phrase I often heard my father ask me as the eldest of his seven children. This memoir is of what now seems an enchanted childhood, written through a boy’s eyes, set in the 1950’s through 70’s, growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. It relates the trials and triumphs of a large Hispanic family, a life abundantly joyful, at times brutal, ever hopeful.

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