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- Illustrated by Brian Floca
- Age Range: 7 – 10 years
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (May 1, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0545142466
- ISBN-13: 978-0545142465
Meet Marty McGuire!
Marty would rather spend recess catching frogs in the pond than playing dress-up with the other girls in third grade. So when her teacher casts Marty as the princess in the class play, Marty’s absolutely, positively sure that there’s been a huge mistake! But after a special lesson in the art of improvisation, Marty comes up with her own plan to improve the play. Maybe a princess in muddy sneakers can live happily ever after, after all!
Messner gets all the details of third grade right: the social chasm between the girls who want to be like the older kids and the ones who are still little girls, the Mad Minutes for memorizing arithmetic facts, the silly classroom-control devices teachers use and the energy students of this age put into projects like class plays. Floca’s black-and-white sketches are filled with movement and emotion and are frequent enough to help new chapter-book readers keep up with this longer text. Believable and endearing characters in a realistic elementary-school setting will be just the thing for fans of Clementine and Ramona.
~Kirkus
Listen to Chapter 1 of the MARTY MCGUIRE audio book, narrated by Cassandra Morris
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[...] MARTY MCGUIRE, the first title in my new chapter book series with Scholastic, came out last weekend…and to celebrate, I thought I’d hold a fun little contest. Marty is a third grader who loves catching frogs and crayfish and getting muddy, so when they make her be the princess in the school play, she must learn to improvise to make the part her own. You can learn more about Marty here. [...]
[...] in Orlando, where I gave my first presentation to the K-2 students. After my talk about my new Marty McGuire chapter book series with Scholastic and my upcoming picture books with Chronicle, SEA MONSTER’S FIRST DAY and OVER AND [...]
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[...] up an ARC (advanced review copy) of her upcoming book Eye of the Storm. Having picked up a copy of Marty McGuire at NCTE in Novemeber, I couldn’t wait. My 2nd grade daughter & I loved Marty – she [...]
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[...] collection. We quickly found many of our favorites: Deza Malone, Gloriana June Hemphill, and Marty McGuire. They begged us to sit down and spend some time with [...]