The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–11 · 1988 · Est. 3.5 hour read

The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks

By Nancy McArthur

Book #1 in the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks series

Two brothers face a sock-eating plant invasion in their messy room.

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128 pages· 26,773 words· Est. 3.5 hour read
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Michael's messy room becomes a battleground when his neat-freak brother, Norman, struggles to keep order. Chaos turns to wonder as mysterious plants sprout, devouring dirty socks with insatiable hunger. As the greenery grows, the brothers must unite to convince their parents to let them keep these peculiar, ever-hungry plants. Can they manage the chaos and keep their leafy secret safe?

From the publisher

Yummie, Yummie…Dirty Socks! Michael’s room was always a disaster area, strewn with all kinds of litter – heaps of papers, piles of crumpled clothes, and dirty socks everywhere. And that was just the top layer! The trouble was, half the room belonged to Michael’s brother Norman the neatness nut. It was the battle of the bedroom – with Norman fighting to keep his spotless territory free from the invasion of Michael’s mess.But that was before the appearance of the most amazing plants ever! Suddenly Michael’s junk heap disappeared and the room was taken over by the two giant plants that gobbled up socks faster than anyone could supply them! And their appetites were growing bigger every day!When the plant that militant slob Michael grows from his mail-order seeds develops an appetite for dirty socks, Michael and his neatnik brother, Norman, join together to persuade their parents to let them keep the ever-growing-and voracious-greenery.

At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
128
Words
26,773
Reading age
8–11
Audience
Juvenile Reader
Lexile
640L
Themes & topics
Books about siblingsBooks about cleaningBooks about plantsBooks about socks
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.1
F&P level
~P
AR points
4
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
5435
Publication
Published
July 1, 1988
Publisher
Avon Books
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780380754939

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