- Hardcover
- Publisher: Perfection Learning (Mar 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0780741331
- ISBN-13: 978-0780741331
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Marvin Redpost 4: Alone in His Teacher's House
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'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
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While Mrs North, Marvin's teacher, is on holiday she asks him to look after Waldo - her dog. Suddenly, Marvin has become the luckiest boy in school. He'll get to sniff about Mrs North's house, look in her wardrobe, check out her bathroom and rummage in her fridge ...Well that's what Stuart and Nick, his best friends, would like to do. But Marvin takes things a little more seriously. After all, he gets paid $3 a day and he will get a bonus on top if everything goes smoothly. What could possibly go wrong? Just how long can Marvin hold on to his luck...Louis Sachar tells this tale with a refreshing and bold frankness and again the characters are vividly portrayed in this the fourth of the series.
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"You will have a substitute teacher tomorrow," Mrs. North told her third-grade class. Read the first page
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Turtleback
This book is interesting and if you are thinking of babysitting a friend's pet it will show you possibilities of what might happen. It was hillarious and my mom and I were cracking up!!
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fun book to read for one Louis Sachar is a very good writer I think this book is one of favorites because it's funny , it's entertaining and it keeps you alive. Marvin Redpost always gets picked on by the other students. anyway one day he is chosen to dog-sit his teachers dog. The dog is is getting up there in age . so he starts his dog- sitting and he enjoys it at first he goes on with his buissness plays with his friends but one day he feeds the dog then he goes to school and then he goes to check on the dog , he can't find the dog so he goes and looks for him the kis has looked all over the house but Marvin can't find him so he goes into the teachers bedroom and he finds barf all over the place and it leads to under the bed so Marvin looks under the bed and and he sees Waldo the dog lying on the floor and he says here Waldo and Waldo dosen't come so he finds out he's dead . Marvion was like what am I going to do the the teacher is going to kill me so a few days later the teacher comes back and Marvin fills that he is in hot water. that's basically it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A Good Book for the Everyday Kid
7 May 2003
Format:Paperback
I picked up this book after reading Sachar's "Holes" to my elementary aged kids, and I was very pleased with the content. In this book, Sachar allows his readers to see life from the perspective of a regular, everyday kid -- and reading it inspired a "what-would-you-do-in-that-situation" dialogue with my own regular, everyday kids. I truly appreciated seeing a young person in this age range (the 3rd grade-ish Marvin Redpost) portrayed as having a conscious, a sense of responsibility, and the awareness to have compassion for others. Marvin is faced with a pretty grown-up sized situation concerning a beloved pet, and I think it's handled with grace and tenderness. I was pleased to see my children feeling compassion for this character, and I'm looking forward to reading more of Marvin's adventures to my own kids.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Marvin Redpost Rules with one SPED teacher
21 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
The Marvin Redpost series has been an incredible, literature-based reading program for one of my students! This student has autism.
Each book has the same cast of characters.
The characters are believable and real to many students experiences.
The emotions of the books are understood by students. This is a real achievement for a student with autism!
There are some illustrations.
The books are chapter books but not overwhelming.
Each book has the same cast of characters.
The characters are believable and real to many students experiences.
The emotions of the books are understood by students. This is a real achievement for a student with autism!
There are some illustrations.
The books are chapter books but not overwhelming.
This particular book allowed me to witness something I'm celebrating:
My student with autism tried to "read ahead" in this book.
We literally had to hide the book to get him back to his other classes. This is really incredible!
Thank you Louis Sachar!
You are helping one very special student get "hooked on reading!"
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Alone in His Teacher's House
30 Mar 2000
Format:School & Library Binding
Marvin Redpost-Alone in His Teacher's House was a fantasticbook! It could show readers to be responsible for your own pet. youcould learn how to be brave just like Marvin. Marvin was so brave that he took the risk to talk to his teacher. When Marvin saw Mrs. North's dog laying under her bed, he didn't know what to do about it. He even said to his self to do something! This book had a lot of surprising pictures and Louis Sachar is a really good author. I am in Third Grade and I like this book. I hope you like it too!
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