Beetle Boy - M. G. Leonard

Darkus

can't believe his eyes when a huge insect drops out of

the trouser leg of his horrible new neighbour. It's a giant beetle

- and it seems to want to communicate. But how can a boy be friends

with a beetle? And what does a beetle have to do with the disappearance

of his dad and the arrival of Lucretia Cutter, with her

taste for creepy jewellery?