![]() Through Obe, King asks the Big Questions (“One hundred years from now…would people live a different way - a way that helped the planet?”) alongside the smaller, more personal ones (can Tommy be trusted?) in a way that will likely have readers doing the same.įrom the January/February 2017 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. To a person (and a creature), the characters are rewardingly complex. Me and Marvin Gardens - Me and Marvin Gardens audiobook, by Amy Sarig King. Interspersed chapters flash back a century to the story of Obe’s great-grandparents (his great-grandfather “drank 175 acres of Devlin land”), helping contextualize events. When Tommy’s gang gets wind of the creature, Obe realizes it’s up to him to protect Marvin. Marvin’s favorite food is plastic, and its scat is toxic. It was definitely not any animal I ever read about…What was this thing?” Obe soon befriends the “animal/ creature/monster/thing” and names it Marvin Gardens. While picking up trash from Devlin Creek, Obe spies a strange creature: “It was definitely not a dog. ![]() Obe is an outcast at school, nicknamed “the hippie” and bullied by his former best friend Tommy’s new crew. Sixth-grader Obe lives with his parents and older sister at the edge of a massive housing development being built on land that once belonged to his mother’s family, the Devlins. ![]() It’s also a smart, environmentally conscious underdog story with a lot of heart and a little sci-fi. 9/16) was bound to be a little weird - and it is. The middle-grade debut of YA novelist A.S. The November book of the month is Me and Marvin Gardens by Amy Sarig King. Intermediate, Middle School Levine/Scholastic 250 pp. ![]()
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