Is He a Girl? (Marvin Redpost (Prebound)) [Hardcover]

Louis Sachar (Author), Barbara Sullivan (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1993 | Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Marvin Redpost (Prebound) (Book 3)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.

--This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition.

Editorial Reviews

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Gr. 2-4. Marvin's not sure whether he's turning into a girl, whether he's just imagining what it's like to be a girl, or whether he's having a nightmare. Is he weird to want to play hopscotch and to wish he could wear sparkles on his clothes? As in the other easy chapter books about Marvin, Sachar writes for beginning readers with a comic simplicity that is never banal. Here he gets a lot of fun out of the identity confusion, and kids will love the frankness about grade-school gender wars and social taboos. There are no neat answers, but a lot of droll questions, including "What's normal?" The cover, with Marvin staring at a girl's reflection in the bathroom mirror, will draw kids right into the farce of the story. Hazel Rochman --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

Review

'Louis Sachar is one of the few masters of American fiction' Independent on Sunday Praise for 'Holes': 'Magic and hard realism come crashing together. This is an extraordinary and unconventional novel' Observer 'An exceptionally good novel' Sunday Times Praise for 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School': 'Thirty clever, fast-moving stories that describe the bizarre events at Wayside School ... each story is refreshingly different' Guardian --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 69 pages
• Publisher: Perfection Learning (August 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0780725646
• ISBN-13: 978-0780725645
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,514,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny Adventure, December 9, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Marvin Redpost: Is He A Girl? (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (School & Library Binding)

I'm Ceci. I gave this book four stars because it was very funny,mysterious, and it made me keep on reading. I didn't give this book five stars because the ending doesn't really answer some questions in the book. Some parts of it made me laugh until milk came out of my nose. Kids: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!...Altho you SHOULD probably buy it.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Marvin Redpost #3 is Fun!, August 11, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Is He A Girl? (Marvin Redpost 3, paper) (Paperback)

I have read all of the Marvin Redpost books, but I liked Is He a Girl? best because it was very fun and suspenseful. It is a fun story because Marvin thinks he is a girl but he doesn't tell his friends. He believes that he is starting to like girl things but I think that there is no difference in girl and boy activities. I think Marvin sees this too. I think this is a fun book for eight or nine year olds to read and younger kids to listen to.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny kid's boo, January 4, 2007

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Monica Bialo (Northern New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Is He A Girl? (Marvin Redpost 3, paper) (Paperback)

I teach second grade and used this book as a read-aloud for my class. The students loved this funny book and I will definitely be reading it again next year.