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 ofSTEM content that introduces readers to seasonal changes and animal lifecycles. AGES: 6 to 9 AUTHOR: Anna Humphrey is the author of the Bee & Flea series, the Clara Humble series, the Megabat series and other novels for middle-grade and young adult readers. Anna lives with her family, their cats, and billions upon billions of backyard critters in Kitchener, Ontario. Mike Deas is an author and illustrator of many picture books and graphic novels. From his studio, Mike feels fortunate to hear the frequent humming of busy bees. He lives with his family on sunny Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. SELLING POINTS: . The third book in the laugh-out-loud STEM chapter book series, Bee & Flea . Curriculum ties to life cycles and seasonal changes . Written by Anna Humphrey, critically acclaimed author of the Megabat and Clara Humble series