Why Pick on Me? (Marvin Redpost Series #2)

by Louis Sachar, Barbara Sullivan (Illustrator)

Overview

Illus. in black-and-white. Marvin is shunned by his classmates, best friends, and teacher after he is unfairly fingered as a nose-picker by the class bully.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307797155
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Series:	Marvin Redpost Series , #2
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	762,113
Lexile:	510L (what's this?)
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York, moved to Southern California when he was nine, and now lives in Austin, Texas.  Louis's first book for children, Sideways Stories from Wayside School was accepted for publication during his first week of law school.  Although Louis graduated and passed the bar exam, he opted to be a full-time writer for children rather than a lawyer.

Louis met his wife, Carla, when he was a visiting author at a school in Texas.  She was a counselor at the same school.  They have a daughter, Sherre.  Louis likes to play chess, cards, ski, play the guitar (and sing loudly), but mostly he likes spending time with Carla and Sherre.  


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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?".

Ilene Cooper

"It will be an underground classic, an easy reader that kids are dying to read."—(starred) Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.  

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