The Battle of the Beetles #1: Beetle Boy Award-winning

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The first book in the bestselling BATTLE OF THE BEETLES series – perfect for fans of Roald Dahl! Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2017 Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Children’s Book Award 2016 Chosen for the Tom Fletcher Book Club
‘Truly great storytelling.’ MICHAEL MORPURGO
‘Funny, exciting and genuinely eccentric’ PHILIPREEVE
‘Roald Dahl meets 101 Dalmatians in a rollicking ride, full of adventure with vivid characters’ EXPRESS
‘By the end, you’ll think beetles are the coolest creatures on the planet’ TOM FLETCHER
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?
The first book in MG Leonard’s acclaimed trilogy, followed by Beetle Queen and Battle of the Beetles!
Featuring exotic beetles, a daring quest, a mixture of bold male and female characters and a truly venomous villain
Includes brilliant illustrations by Julia Sarda
From the author of Hunt for the Golden Scarab, Twitch and the Adventure on Trains series, co-written with Sam Sedgman
Product Details
Catalogue number
1470 in Education Catalogue 2025/26
Series
The Battle of the Beetles (book 1)
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781910002704
Publisher
Date published
March 3rd, 2016
Accelerated Reader
AR book level: 4.9; Middle years; 9.0 points
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- 336 pages
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New
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