Book Beetle Boy
The first book in the bestselling BATTLE OF THE BEETLES series
- perfect for fans of Roald Dahl.
Winner of the Branford
Boase Award
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book
Prize
Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Children's Book
Award
'Truly great storytelling.' MICHAEL MORPURGO
Darkus
can't believe his eyes when a huge insect drops
out of the trouser leg of his horrible new neighbour. It's a giant
beetle - and it seems to want to communicate. But how can a boy
be friends with a beetle? And what does a beetle have to do with
the disappearance of his dad and the arrival of Lucretia Cutter,
with her taste for creepy jewellery?
Check out the other
books in the series, BEETLE QUEEN and BATTLE OF THE BEETLES!
Darkus can't believe it when a huge insect drops out of the trouser
leg of his horrible new neighbour. It's a giant beetle - and
it seems to want to communicate. But how can a boy be friends with
a beetle? And what does a beetle have to do with the disappearance
of his dad and the arrival of Lucretia Cutter, with her taste
for creepy jewellery?