Beetle Boy
Year 6 have thoroughly got themselves stuck into their new Guided Reading text this half term; Beetle Boy by M.G. Leonard.
The glorious start to a trilogy about a brilliant boy, his loyal friends, and some amazingly intelligent beetles that brings together adventure, humour, and real Science!
Darkus Cuttle's Dad mysteriously goes missing from his job as Director of Science at the Natural History Museum. Vanished without a trace! From a locked room! Darkus moves in with his eccentric Uncle Max and next door to Humphrey and Pickering, two lunatic cousins with an enormous beetle infestation. Darkus soon discovers that the beetles are anything but ordinary.
Will Darkus solve the mystery of his disappearing Dad?
How are the beetles anything but ordinary?
