Readers are invited to join a researcher on a passionate hunt for Loxosceles taino, a dangerous recluse spider, captured in the engaging prose and stunning photos of a masterful team.

Can Jo Bell spin a web big enough to catch...a criminal? The world's friendliest spiders take center stage in bestselling author Kathryn Lasky's latest book about The Deadlies! They're sweet and friendly...but they just happen to be super toxic. The Deadlies are the world's most misunderstood family of spiders. Kicked out of home after home, all the Deadlies want is to settle down in a cozy web with no exterminators around. Now they've found the...

Having been discovered, a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders must flee their cozy home in a symphony hall and go searching for a new place to live.