7/3/2023 0 Comments Me and marvin gardens book![]() ![]() ![]() There are also a lot of lovely connections to make to the world around us. Middle grades can be a lot more complacent (as a genre) than YA, and King clearly wants to take your typical boy-and-dog narrative and toss that on its head. There’s a lot to love here: King’s style is fresh, wry, and rebellious. Obe and this creature develop a friendship, a friendship that’s imperiled when Obe realizes that Marvin’s scat carries some of the same qualities as toxic waste. One day Obe comes across a strange dog-like, pig-like creature who eats plastic and is responsive to Obe’s entreaties, whom he names Marvin Gardens. Meanwhile, former friend Tommy has turned against him, has made other friends at school, and now calls Obe a hippie for Obe’s creek-wading, trash-collecting habits. He can’t roam freely any more and it’s cramping his style. Sixth grader Obe Devlin is watching his family’s ancestral land turn into housing developments. King), you’ll immediately identify the qualities that are central to most of her books: we have a protagonist who is dealing with social ostracism in peer group and at home we have parents who are a little evil we have a absurdist concept that lands in this otherwise realistic narrative like a spaceship landing in the middle of a cornfield. If you know this author’s YA titles (written as A.S. ![]() Expect this book to pop up again in Newbery 2018 discussions. A renowned YA author’s middle grades debut that reminds us to cherish our environment, our history, and consider our impact for future generations. ![]()
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