Beetles, Lightly Toasted
By: by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.
Published: March 1989
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780440401438
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: nsects as food -- Fiction; Contests -- Fiction; Cousins -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
First sentence: A square of light from the kitchen window shone on the wet grass as Andy followed his father to the barn, pulling on Big Earl's jacket as he went.
Description: Fourth-grader Andy Moller will do anything to win the Roger B. Sudermann essay contest so that he can win fifty dollars and get his picture in the local newspaper. His cousin and rival, Jack, feels exactly the same way. But how can Andy be inventive and imaginative in an essay contest on conservation?

Bugs and beetles, that's how. Leave it to Andy to think of people eating insects as  way of conserving their food budgets. Before long he's preparing toasted beetles in brownies, meal-worm-filled egg salad sandwiches, and batter-fried earthworms for his friends and family. They don't know what they're in for, and neither does Andy. Will he win the contest and lose his friends and family?
Notes: A Dell Yearling Book.
Description from book cover.
Table of contents: title: Remembering Roger; title: Veggies; title: The Announcement; title: The Dirty, Rotten Sneak; title: Burned to a Crisp; title: Astronauts and Grasshoppers; title: Bon Apetit!; title: One-half Cup of Nuts; title: Cooking with Steam; title: Capturing the Cow; title: Applesauce; title: Better Than Colonel Sanders; title: Getting Even; title: The Okra Surprise; title: Who Won the Contest; title: Beetles, Lightly Toasted