Doug is teased for not being strong, tough, or persistent like the other dung beetles, but Belinda the butterfly helps him accept that he has strength in a different, wonderful way.

A poop-loving dung beetle learns not to hide the quirks that make him special.

Darkus Cuttle has taken care of his father ever since his mother died, but one day his father vanished from a locked vault at the Natural History Museum, and now he lives with his eccentric uncle--but one day he finds a large and unusually intelligent and self-aware beetle, and soon he and his two friends are caught up in a struggle to protect an intelligent super species of beetles.

After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A beetle courageously sets out in search of his best friend--a caterpillar that arrived out of nowhere and vanished without warning.