A Magic Crystal?
What's A Magic Crystal? About
This chapter book in Newbery Honor-winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar’s Marvin Redpost series is getting magical…or is it? Marvin Redpost has a girlfriend–not a real girlfriend, just a girl who is a friend. And Casey Happleton is no ordinary girl. She lives in an old firehouse and she has a magic crystal! She wants to share the crystal with Marvin. Could the crystal really be magic? Or is Casey putting her own spell on Marvin? 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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The Creatives Behind the Book
Louis Sachar is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats’ Survival to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents’ Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. His books for younger readers include There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others.
Amy Wummer is the illustrator of over fifty children’s books. In 1998 and 2007, she received the Highlights for Children Cover of the Year award. Amy has illustrated several books in “The Night Before” series. She lives in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780679890027
- Publication Date
- September 26, 2000
- Publisher
- Random House Books for Young Readers
- Page Count
- 96
- Audience
- Transitional Reader
- Reading Age
- 6 - 9 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 00037300
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 44132953
- Lexile® Level
- 550L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~N
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~3.6
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