Product Description

Will kissing his elbow really turn Marvin into a girl? Casey Happleton claims it's so, and Marvin starts to believe her after his lips "accidentally" brush his elbow. "Kids will love the frankness about grade school gender wars and social taboos."--Booklist.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #246723 in Books
• Published on: 1993-08-24
• Released on: 1993-08-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780679819486
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Booklist
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

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

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

Customer Reviews

Funny Adventure
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.

Marvin Redpost #3 is Fun!
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.

Funny kid's boo
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.