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.
How it reads
Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSmall ensemble
Worth knowing
Written forMiddle grade
When and where
ThemesFriendshipFamilyJustice
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