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Marvin Redpost : why pick on me?

Format:

Book

Title:

Marvin Redpost : why pick on me?

Other title(s):

Why pick on me?

Author:

Sachar, Louis, 1954- author

ISBN:

9780553535419

Publication:

New York : Random House, [2015]

Physical Description:

68 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series title(s):

Marvin Redpost series ;

Number in series:

#2.

General Note:

"A Stepping Stone book."

Originally published in 1993.

Includes excerpt for Marvin Redpost: is he a girl? in unnumbered pages at end of work.

Contents:

A weird girl -- Bugged -- Marvin wears a dress -- Don't go to sleep! -- The ugliest face in the world -- Off to school -- It's fun to be a girl -- ... A little different -- He wouldn't hit a girl -- High atop the spiderweb -- Caught in the web -- Normal.

Summary:

A small incident during recess threatens to turn nine-year-old Marvin into the outcast of his third-grade class. Marvin is shunned by his classmates, best friends, and teacher after he is unfairly fingered as a nose-picker by the class bully.

Reading Level:

Ages 6-9.

F & P Text Level: M.

Subject(s):

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Popularity -- Juvenile fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

Popularity -- Fiction.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Added Author:

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

Summary

This sidesplitting chapter book in Newbery Honor-winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar's Marvin Redpost series takes on rumors and teasing.

There's a rumor at school that Marvin Redpost picks his nose. Clarence started it, and now everyone believes it. Even Marvin's friends are embarrassed to be seen with him! Can Marvin figure out how to change everyone's mind? Or is he doomed to be teased forever?

Hilarious and relatable, Marvin Redpost is perfect for kids who love to bond with quirky characters like Junie B. Jones and George Brown, Class Clown.

Author Notes

Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954. He attended the University of California, at Berkeley. During his senior year, he helped out at Hillside Elementary School. It was his experience there that led to his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, written in 1976. After college, he worked for a while in a sweater warehouse in Norwalk, Connecticut before attending Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where he graduated in 1980. Sideways Stories from Wayside School was accepted for publication during his first week of law school. He worked part-time as a lawyer for eight years before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. His other works include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, the Marvin Redpost books, Fuzzy Mud, and Holes, which won the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was made into a major motion picture.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Horn Book Review

When third-grader Marvin is unfairly labeled a nose-picker, his classmates and best friends stop hanging around with him until he uses his class survey to ask them if they've ever picked their nose. All, including the school principal and except the class bully, admit they have. This could easily be an unappealing subject, but Sachar treats the situation with unflinching honesty and straightforwardness. The hilarious portrayal of grade-school relationships has tremendous child appeal. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 2-4. Nose picking does not necessarily come to mind as a topic for a beginning chapter book, but it seems Sacher has, er, picked a winner. Unjustly accused of picking his nose, Marvin tries to fight the rumors, adjust to his outcast status, and deal with the loss of his best friends, who are afraid of being labeled nose pickers as well. Sacher really understands how kids can get skewered for differences (real or otherwise), and readers will certainly see themselves here. Happily for Marvin, he finds a way out of his dilemma when he conducts a survey and learns that everyone but his original accuser, even his teacher and the principal, fesses up to picking his or her nose. Illustrated with energetic pencil drawings, this is brisk, funny, and very revealing. No doubt we'll be seeing more of Marvin, who was introduced in Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? [BKL D 1 92]. --Ilene Cooper

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