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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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Main Author: King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Animals > Juvenile fiction.
Secrecy > Juvenile fiction.
Pollution > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Juvenile fiction.
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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. Excerpted from Me and Marvin Gardens by Amy Sarig King All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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