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Most of the bug-fellow characters in Book Three, Heroes of Meadowfield, you have already met.  The few listed below are either new characters or characters that were given an expanded role in the final book in the Cockroach of Meadowfield series.

Click on the pictures to go to each insects information page to find out how each insect behaves in its natural surroundings. You will also find how the insect character is developed in the story.
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History:  Virtual Tour
Part of the story in Book Three, Heroes of Meadowfield, involves one of our country's most famous museums--The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.  If you have never been there (and even if you have) you can visit it, right now, on your own virtual tour.  Just click on the button below and you can wander all over, in and out of the museum's corridors, checking out all the amazing halls and exhibits. You can even visit the museum gift shop.
                           You are going to LOVE IT!  Have FUN!

Smithsonian virtual Tour
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