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Author
Language
English
Description
"It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father gave...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A clumsy young click beetle learns to land on its feet with encouragement from various animals and a wise old beetle. An electronic chip with a built-in battery creates clicking sounds to accompany the story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Physical Desc
55 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Some bugs have super-power like abilities. And then there's Burt the beetle. He's not strong and he can't run fast. He doesn't even bite. He's more of a hugger, really. But Burt wants more. He wants a SUPERPOWER. There's just one tiny problem: what kind of special abilities do June beetles have?"--
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
59 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"All Burt the beetle wants to do is settle down and find the perfect home for himself. Should he build his home out of silk like monarch butterflies? Or make it out of wood fibres and saliva like wasps? Or maybe he could just move into a human home? What does the perfect home for a June beetle look like anyways? And how will Burt know when he's found it? Follow along in this charming and humorous tale as Burt learns all about different insect habitats...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A beetle courageously sets out in search of his best friend--a caterpillar that arrived out of nowhere and vanished without warning.
Author
Series
Bug boys volume 3
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 390L
Physical Desc
263 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beetle best friends, Stag-B and Rhino-B, are are ready to explore beyond Bug Village and try new things together like sleepovers, a cooking contest, and a haunted house.
7) Beetle bop
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text reveal the great variety of beetles and their swirling, humming, crashing activities.
8) Beetle mania
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends and fellow bug catchers Dirt and Bugsy gather a bunch of beetles and sort them into categories.
9) Masterpiece
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
10) Big Little Hippo
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Hippo cannot wait to grow up and complains that all the other animals are bigger than him, until he helps a small beetle and feels better about himself.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's Christmas Eve and Little Miss Spider is lonely--she doesn't have a little brother or sister to help build snowy creatures and join in her holiday games. Just when Little Miss Spider is wishing her hardest for a friend, she gets whopped with a snowball and discovers Asparagus Beetle..."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
GN 560L
Physical Desc
33 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tiger Moth and his sidekick, Kung Pow, visit a dung beetle ranch owned by Tiger's Uncle Aphid, but when they arrive, the beetles are missing. It looks like the work of Stinky McCree. Tiger is convinced, however, that somewhere out among the desert cacti, a darker evil lurks.
13) Doug's dung
Author
Series
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Doug is teased for not being strong, tough, or persistent like the other dung beetles, but Belinda the butterfly helps him accept that he has strength in a different, wonderful way.
14) Bug-napped!
Author
Series
Hardy Boys clue book volume 11
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition.
Physical Desc
84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective brothers Frank and Joe search their friend's pet stag beetle who goes missing while they are looking after him. Can the brothers solve the case of the missing beetle before the weekend is over?
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
104 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marvin the beetle finds adventure when his human friend James takes him to school.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 5
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
James invites Marvin and his cousin Elaine on a trip to the country, and it proves to be a very exciting adventure for the forever friends.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
104 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marvin the beetle is going collecting with his family. All is good and well until Uncle Albert gets hurt. Marvin needs his human friend James's help to save Uncle Albert before it's too late" --
18) Beetle boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Darkus Cuttle has taken care of his father ever since his mother died, but one day his father vanished from a locked vault at the Natural History Museum, and now he lives with his eccentric uncle--but one day he finds a large and unusually intelligent and self-aware beetle, and soon he and his two friends are caught up in a struggle to protect an intelligent super species of beetles.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maya is a little bee with a big heart. While most bees believe that other insects should be feared, Maya can't help but make friends with Flip the violin-playing grasshopper, Kurt the dung beetle and even Sting, a young hornet. This group of 'fearsome' friends causes some bees to avoid Maya. But when the Queen's royal jelly is stolen, it will take Maya and all of her bug buddies to figure out who did it and how to save the day.
20) In the meadow
Author
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English