Me and Marvin Gardens (Scholastic Gold)

Me and Marvin Gardens (Scholastic Gold)

by Amy Sarig King
Me and Marvin Gardens (Scholastic Gold)

Me and Marvin Gardens (Scholastic Gold)

by Amy Sarig King

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Overview

The first middle-grade novel from YA superstar Amy Sarig (A. S.) King is a boy-meets-animal story like no other.

The first middle-grade novel from Printz Honor-winning author Amy Sarig (A. S.) King!Washington Post Best Book of the YearA New York Public Library Best Book for KidsA Texas Bluebonnet Master List selectionObe Devlin has problems. His family's farmland has been taken over by developers. His best friend Tommy has abandoned him. And he keeps getting nosebleeds, because of that thing he doesn't like to talk about. So Obe hangs out at the nearby creek, in the last wild patch left, picking up trash and looking for animal tracks.One day, he sees a creature that looks kind of like a large dog. And as he watches it, he realizes it eats plastic. Only plastic. Water bottles, shopping bags... No one has seen a creature like this before. The animal—Marvin Gardens—becomes Obe's best friend and biggest secret. But to keep him safe from the developers and Tommy and his friends, Obe must make a decision that might change everything.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780545870740
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date: 01/31/2017
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile: 670L (what's this?)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Amy Sarig King is the author of the middle grade titles Me and Marvin Gardens, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and The Year We Fell From Space, an ALSC Notable Children’s Book. She has also published many critically acclaimed young adult novels under the name A. S. King, including Please Ignore Vera Dietz, which was named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Ask the Passengers, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Michael L. Printz Award winner and LA Times Book Prize finalist Dig; and SW/TCH. After many years farming abroad, she now lives back in southeastern Pennsylvania with her family. Visit her website at www.as-king.com and follow her on Twitter at @AS_King.

Read an Excerpt

From Me and Marvin Gardens:The track was part hoof and part paw. It was part dog and part pig. It made no sense, this track. I looked for others and when there were no others, I figured someone must have been playing a joke on me.CREWAHARKKKLTKELTH!The noise made the hair on my arms and legs stand straight up. I thought it was Tommy and his friends because I didn't believe stories about ghosts — not even the one about spirits who were angry at the developers for growing houses instead of crops. But it wasn't Tommy.The animal was five feet from me, half in the creek, half on the bank.It was definitely not a dog.It was definitely not any animal I ever read about.It was munching on a plastic water bottle with its huge teeth. The sound was worse than bulldozers. CREWAHARKKKLTKELTH!The animal wasn't scared of me. It just sat there munching. Then, with its paw/hoof, it shoved the rest of the bottle into its mouth and swallowed.

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