# Beetle Boy (reissue)

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- Authors: [M.G. Leonard](https://www.bookquiver.com/mg-leonard)
- Publisher: Chicken House
- ISBN: 978-19-1717-188-5
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2026-05-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Darkus’s dad is missing – vanished from a locked room in the Natural History Museum. The police are baffled; how can someone disappear without a trace? Moving in with his eccentric uncle, Darkus discovers a new friend in a giant beetle – and it wants to communicate. But can a boy and a beetle be friends? And can they find Darkus’s dad together? 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 Sardà From the author of Hunt for the Golden Scarab, Twitch and the Adventure on Trains series, co-written with Sam Sedgman