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Stung By Bethany Wiggins: Summary
The book that I read this quarter was Stung by Bethany Wiggins. It is about a 17-year-old girl named Fiona Tarsis who lives in a world where being stung and bearing the mark means you live on the wrong side of the wall. During desperate attempts to save the rapidly declining bee population, a new line of super bees were created. Genetically modified to resist all pesticides and engineered to have a more deadly and venomous sting, the GenMod bees became the new hope for the future of the bees and everything that depended on them. Until they started attacking humans. When humans were stung, the bee’s venom caused flu-like symptoms that were quickly followed by aggressive behavior then death. This led the government to unleash a new ultimate pesticide
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