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1) Hi! Fly Guy
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Fly Guy volume 1
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English
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When Buzz captures a fly to enter in The Amazing Pet Show, his parents and the judges tell him that a fly cannot be a pet, but Fly Guy proves them wrong. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.
3) Filthy flies
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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Learn all about flies and the deadly diseases they carry in this engrossing new narrative nonfiction book for young readers.
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English
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"It's hard to like a house fly. It buzzes around your ears, lands on your dirty dog, and then heads for your lunch. The feet of the fly that settle on your lunch are covered with hordes of bacteria carried from all its landing spots in the neighborhood. And that could be a garbage dump or a dead squirrel."
The house fly shares horrible habits with thousands of other two-winged insects that belong to the family of true flies. Gnats and midges are...
6) The fly
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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A funny look at the life of a fly who doesn't quite understand why no one likes him.
A housefly introduces himself and talks about his day, and how he spends his time flying laps around a lamp to keep fit, avoiding being eaten by animals, and dodging flyswatters.
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"Tying legend Jay 'Fishy' Fullum shows you how to make flies that catch fish. Armed with a vice, a hook, a few dabs of glue, and a handful of twisty-ties, Fishy offers invaluable advice, directions, and patterns for making handmade flies with off-the-shelf materials -- all in a friendly, funny, non-technical way. Along with 300 full-color photographs, he explains where to find the materials, make them workable, and turn them into flies that are practically...
12) The fly
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Focuses on the common housefly and its fondness for all things revolting. The author takes obvious joy in detailing the housefly's typical meals, which include such savoury delights as garbage-juice soup, dirty diapers, and 'doggie doo'. The Muscidae family (to which the housefly belongs) is depicted with Mom, Dad, a younger sibling, and a slouchy adolescent fly. Includes graphic illustrations and fact-filled text that traces its extensive history...
13) Shoo, Fly Guy!
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English
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A pet fly searches for his favorite brown, oozy, lumpy, smelly food.
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Fly Guy volume 12
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English
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When Fly Guy is not allowed in the restaurant with Buzz's family he follows his nose and ends up in the soup.
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248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
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English
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[The author] travels from the drawers of wonder at the Natural History Museum, London to the mountains of Peru, via underground caves, smelly latrines, and the English country garden. She discovers flies without wings, eyes on stalks, rotating genitalia and the terrible hairy fly, while pausing along the way to consider today's key issues of conservation, taxonomy, forensic entomology and climate change." -- Jacket.
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John Gierach is a highly trusted and trustable opinion-maker in fly-fishing. People take what he says to the bank. While most of Gierach's writing is essay-style and reflective, here he gets down to the nitty-gritty: how he ties his favorite flies and why he thinks they work so well for him. There is, thus, an instant reader connection: "Gierach's patterns are good enough for me." Few anglers will skip knowing what a master angler and thinker prefers...
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"The American angler guide to fly fishing for trout provides beginning and intermediate anglers with everything they need to know in order to successfully fly fish for the most popular quarry in America. It contains the essentials of casting, the basics of both dry fly fishing and wet fly fishing, a primer on various species of trout, and an overview of prime destinations for planning your trip. It includes color photographs and line drawings that...
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Fly Guy volume 6
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English
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Fly Guy joins Buzz's football team, despite Coach's misgivings, and hits the field for a special, secret play.
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Fly Guy volume 14
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English
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Fly Guy has learned a lot of new tricks, but when he shows off at dinner time he and Buzz get into trouble -- though later they prove useful.
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