Marvin is a beetle who lives under the kitchen sink of a family who has an eleven-year-old son named James. James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday and Marvin ends up drawing an incredible miniature picture. James gets all the credit of course since nobody knows he is now friends with a beetle who can't verbally communicate with him.
Although this is an unlikely friendship, they make it work. They find ways to communicate which ends up solving the big mystery of stolen art.
I was pleasantly surprised that I was so involved in a book that had a beetle as a main character. Sometimes those animal books end up being really full of some good stuff.
I very much enjoyed this fast-paced mystery about art, forgery, lies and most of all friendship.
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I was a little leery of this one, but my students so far have liked it, although this author's first title, Shakespeare's Secret, is more to my liking!
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