Bug Girl

Reviewed by: Kara Reiman - Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: November 15, 2017

Review

"Bug Girl" is a book in the same vein as "Dragonbreath" and "Hamster Princess," where there are occasional drawings interspersed throughout the text (usually funny illustrations). The first book by Benjamin Harper and Sarah Hines Stephens, "Bug Girl" follows Amanda Price, a sixth grader who loves all bugs. This has made her extremely uncool amongst her peers, including her former best friend, Emily. When crazy hybrid monsters attack her town and kidnap her mother, Amanda discovers she has secret powers and must use them to save everyone. The book is a lot of fun and has interesting notes about different insects, so I learned a bit from it. Kids will probably not get the references to "Members Only" jackets and I think there were a few other 80s-90s slang terms that they may not understand or will need to look up, but other than that I think "Bug Girl" will be a hit. ~Reviewed by Kate Radke

Overall Book Score: very good