This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Aladdin hardcover edition April 2020

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Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Santy Gutiérrez

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dixon, Franklin W., author. | Gutiérrez, Santy, illustrator.

Title: Bug-napped! / by Franklin W. Dixon ; illustrated by Gutiérrez.

Description: First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition. | New York : Aladdin, [2019] | Series: Hardy boys clue book ; 11 | Summary: “Detective brothers Frank and Joe search for a very special beetle”—Provided by publisher. | Identifiers: LCCN 2019003754 (print) | LCCN 2019006266 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534431287 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534431263 (pbk) | ISBN 9781534431270 (hardcover)

Subjects: | CYAC: Lost and found possessions—Fiction. |

Beetles—Fiction. | Brothers—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories.

Classification: LCC PZ7.D644 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.D644 Bug 2020 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019003754