Why Pick on Me? (Marvin Redpost #2)

by Louis Sachar (Author) Adam Record (Illustrator)

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

This sidesplitting chapter book in Newbery Honor–winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar’s Marvin Redpost series takes on rumors and teasing. 

There’s a rumor at school that Marvin Redpost picks his nose. Clarence started it, and now everyone believes it. Even Marvin’s friends are embarrassed to be seen with him! Can Marvin figure out how to change everyone’s mind? Or is he doomed to be teased forever?

 

Hilarious and relatable, Marvin Redpost is perfect for kids who love to bond with quirky characters like Junie B. Jones  and George Brown, Class Clown.

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

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
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679819479
Lexile Measure
510
Guided Reading Level
L
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date
February 16, 1993
Series
Marvin Redpost
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV039050 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
Library of Congress categories
Schools
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