Me and Marvin Gardens
Obe Devlin spends a lot of his time cleaning up the creek that runs through what little is left of his family's once extensive farmland, and worrying about what the developers are doing nearby, and the pollution it is causing--but one day he finds a strange creature by his creek that eats plastic, a...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Obe Devlin spends a lot of his time cleaning up the creek that runs through what little is left of his family's once extensive farmland, and worrying about what the developers are doing nearby, and the pollution it is causing--but one day he finds a strange creature by his creek that eats plastic, and soon the animal he calls Marvin Gardens becomes his personal secret, which he believes needs to be protected from pretty much everybody. |
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| Physical Description: | 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780545870740 0545870747 |
| Author Notes: | 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. |
