Megan Hollander--who hates bugs--must collect twenty-five different species of bugs for her science project and to make matters worse, her little brother is a bug-lover who keeps trying to rescue the bugs she's already caught.
Dont't Bug Me by Pam Zollman is a humorous, fun, light hearted story. Megan, protagonist and narrator, has trouble completing her sixth-grade science project. She has to find 25 species of bugs and label them. After she has gone to all the trouble of collecting all these bugs her younger brother, Alexander, goes and gives them a proper burial outdoors because he feels bad for them. Her main challenge is class clown Charlie who teases her mercilessly. Later she finds out that he does not do his project because he is terrified of bugs. They make a truce with each other that he will not tease her anymore if she keeps his secret. Well written fun story. Target audience 5th-6th grade.