Michael A Franco: 5 books

"Were you born stupid?" is a phrase I often heard my father ask me as the eldest of his seven children. This is a memoir 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...

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?

Did you ever wonder what lives in a pile of dust or in that sunbeam shining through your window with the swirling, shiny flecks? These little creatures, smaller than a pinhead, are walking, blind little living things that look like a walking stomach with a mouthpart. You’ll never guess what these tiny little beasts are always hungry for?

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 horsehair worm.Three months after the horsehair worm parasitizes the insect, this host--almost zombie-like--is compelled to seek out...

This relative of the cricket has been called ‘Woh-tzi-Neh’ by native Americans, which translates as "skull insect" or “old, bald-headed man.” In Spanish, it was called " ñina de la tierra" or "child of the earth," because of its large, bald “baby face.” It ‘s also known by the names...