A fifth grade boy named Andy Moller has been preparing to enter the annual essay contest offered every year to the fifth grade class only with a prize of $50 and a picture and article about the winner in the town paper. Andy is disappointed when the topic of the essay is announced...conservation. How he goes about deciding to conserve food is hilarious and charming!

I am not a bug fan myself, but this book would be very interesting for young boys. It is hard for an author to find content that is appealing to boys this age, but Phyllis Reynolds Naylor manages to do so very well!

I would have the students research online and in the library which bugs would be edible and safe for humans to eat. Maybe as a class we could come up with some interesting ways to cook the bugs! I would also have the students write about conservation and try to create a unique way of conserving something. This could be a good extension to do with a science lesson about conservation or planet Earth. ( )