A little girl - nicknamed Bug for her love of bugs - loves to draw bugs, but struggles with math. But suddenly she has incentive: "If everyone does well on the big math test tomorrow, we'll plan a trip to the science museum!" Bug wants to see the bug room at the science museum, so she tries to study, but ends up observing and drawing bugs instead - and collecting lucky crickets. But she realizes that she IS doing math when she counts clusters of insects, and she does well on the test - until her lucky crickets escape.

Bug is sweet, the teacher Mrs. Muskie is reasonably good-humored about the escaped crickets and Bug's creative way of doing math, and all's well that ends well. ( )