Is He a Girl? (Marvin Redpost #3)

by Louis Sachar (Author) Adam Record (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Marvin Redpost

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.

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

Louis Sachar
Newbery Award winner Louis Sachar is the author of The Boy Who Lost His Face, the Marvin Redpost books, and the much-loved There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, winner of 19 child-voted state awards.

Louis Sachar's book Holes, winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, is also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, and an ALA Notable Book, and was made into a major motion picture.
Classification
-
ISBN-13
9780679819486
Lexile Measure
510
Guided Reading Level
L
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date
August 24, 1993
Series
Marvin Redpost
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
Library of Congress categories
Identity
Identity (Psychology)
Schools
Sex role
Redpost, Marvin (Fictitious character)

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