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K-Gr 3 When mom's giant cockroach, Max, escapes from his glass cage just before an important ceremony at the lab where she works, the young narrator and his brother find the bug but just can't catch him. Help comes from a woman with an unusual talent, resulting in a story that's as s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Going to work with Mom, an environmental entomologist, is always adventurous for the narrator and his little brother, Leo. They get to see all kinds of bugs, from robber flies ("They carry their food with their feet") to dung beetles ("They eat animal poop!"). Best of all is Max, a Madagascar cockroach, as "big as a bite-sized candy bar" that "hisses like a snake when he is mad." Mom wisely keeps Max in a glass tank, and the two boys always cover it after they feed him. That is, until the day the lab is rededicated as the Ruby L. Gold Nature Center. Warned to be on their best...Log In or Sign Up to Read More