Is He a Girl? (Marvin Redpost Series #3)

by Louis Sachar, Adam Record (Illustrator)

Overview

This chapter book in Newbery Honor–winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar’s Marvin Redpost series offers a sidesplitting take on the differences between girls and boys!
 
When Casey Happleton tells Marvin that if you kiss your elbow you’ll turn into a girl, Marvin doesn’t believe it. Then Marvin kisses his elbow by accident and starts to feel very strange. He wants pigtails and starts dotting his i’s with little hearts. Could Casey be right? Or is it all in Marvin’s head? You decide!
 
Hilarious and relatable, Marvin Redpost is perfect for kids who love to bond with quirky characters like George Brown, Class Clown and Junie B. Jones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679819486
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/24/1993
Series:	Marvin Redpost: A Stepping Stone Book (TM) , #3
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 7.63(h) x 0.25(d)
Lexile:	510L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Louis Sachar has never kissed his elbow and has never been a girl. He is still trying to figure out the secret difference between girls and boys.

Louis Sachar is the bestselling author of the award-winning novel Holes, as well as Small Steps, The Cardturner, Stanley Yelnats’ Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake, There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes, and the rest of the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. Visit him at louissachar.com.

Table of Contents

1.	A Weird Girl	1
2.	Bugged	7
3.	Marvin Wears a Dress	14
4.	Don't Go to Sleep!	17
5.	The Ugliest Face in the World	23
6.	Off to School	30
7.	It's Fun to Be a Girl	36
8.	... A Little Different	41
9.	He Wouldn't Hit a Girl	50
10.	High Atop the Spiderweb	56
11.	Caught in the Web	62
12.	Normal	66

Editorial Reviews

"Kids will love the frankness about grade school gender wars and social taboos."—Booklist.  

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