Break-Out at the Bug Lab (Easy-to-Read, Puffin)

By Ruth Horowitz

Book Overview

Max, a Madagascar cockroach, is as big as a bite-sized candy bar and hisses like a snake when he is mad. Leo and his brother are fascinated. Out of all of the bugs in their mother's bug lab, Max is definitely the best. But now, Max is on the loose in the lab! To make matters worse, there's a party there today. Leo and his brother have to find Max before he makes people scream-or worse.

"A book in which everything is just right." (School Library Journal)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142302007
• ISBN13: 9780142302002
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

Bugs.

My 8 year old really enjoyed reading Breakout at the Bug Lab by Ruth Horowitz to me. As I studied Entomology in College he loves looking at bugs with me and this book really hit home. Two kids have a mom who works in a bug lab and has a pet cockroach. The roach escapes on a very important day and they must get it back. The plot is a bit predictable but still fun. It is a Dial Easy to Read book recommended as a reader for 2-3rd grade.

Nice book for boys and girls

breakout at the bug lab is a nice book for boys and girls-it is not a gross bug book but a story about problem solving and honesty. the book shows a female entymologist and two well meaning boys and their "oops" moment. we've given this as a gift several times all to great review-

Good Book

Breakout at the Bug Lab is a good story for young readers. It will build up their creativity and teach them a lesson. The lesson will teach children to make sure they finish a task completely before they walk away and something bad happens. I thought that the book was very interesting and fun to read because it is a story full of waiting for something to happen and I think that that is a very good attention getter. The book was so interesting that I was waiting anxiously to read the second chapter. It was very descriptive and specific that I knew exactly what the writer was talking about. It was very colorful and had very good drawings. It is a very good book and I think that children and adults would love reading it. It has a lot of beautiful coloring and it would be a very interesting book to read

A rare thing

This is something rare, a funny, contemporary easy reader with a clever plot, kid-friendly humor, and natural-sounding writing. (Most easy readers have three-word sentences and go chop-chop.) You don't have to like bugs to like it, but it doesn't hurt. Great for a parent and child to read aloud together, which is what I did with my 7-year-old.