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by Amy Sarig King (Author)
The first middle-grade novel from YA superstar Amy Sarig (A. S.) King is a boy-meets-animal story like no other.
Me and Marvin Gardens joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids
A Texas Bluebonnet Master List selection
Obe 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, Obe must make a decision that might change everything.
Accelerated Reading Level 4.4
Author Biography
Amy Sarig King is the author of the middle-grade novels Me and Marvin Gardens, The Year We Fell from Space, and Attack of the Black Rectangles. 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 the collection The Collectors, which also won the Michael L. Printz Award. After many years farming abroad, she now lives back in southeastern Pennsylvania with her family. Visit her website at www.as-king.com.
