This simple story for beginning readers teaches the "ug" sound through rhyming text and bright, original illustrations. Additional features to aid in comprehension include a word list for review, a note to parents and educators, and an introduction to the author and illustrator.

Dot and Jabber, mouse detectives, try to solve the mystery of the disappearing insects.

After being mugged, Scratch Murphy the flea asks Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective, for help in finding the culprit who stole money from his Six Legs Amusement Park.

Maybelle the cockroach follows the advice of her new fly friend Maurice and tumbles into a terrifying but tasty adventure during Mrs. Peabody's Ladies' Spring Tea.

After Elizabeth's parents do not agree with her various suggestions for the perfect pet, she discovers a solution.

A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room ... where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. Sucked into the void of a vacuum bag, this one little bug moves through denial, bargaining, anger, despair and eventually acceptance -- the five stages of grief -- as it comes to terms with its fate. Will there be a light at the end of the tunnel? Will there be dust bunnies...

During Fun with Food Week in her school science class, second-grader Beetle McGrady tries to work up the courage to eat an ant.

Ms. Frizzle turns the entire class into insects to show them how insects eat other insects and that there are lots of surprises when it comes to insect invaders.

When an old woman gets sick and her garden begins to die, the doodle bugs call on the Leaf Men to make things right again.

Harry, a young centipede, faces danger and frustration when he is captured by a hoo-min and placed in a jar.