Publishers Weekly, starred review * A smart, environmentally conscious underdog story with a lot of heart. Review Quotes Praise for Me and Marvin Gardens: A Spring 2017 Kids Indie Next List selection A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year A Texas Bluebonnet Master List selection * A provocative exploration of human action and interaction on both local and global levels, as well as the interplay between past, present, and future, Kings novel will leave readers pondering how we treat each other and the planet. In Attack of the Black Rectangles, acclaimed author Amy Sarig King shows all the ways truth can be hard. Macs about to see the power of letting them out. So many adults want Mac to keep his words to himself. but her response doesnt take them seriously. He and his friends head to the principals office to protest the censorship. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, hes outraged. When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolens The Devils Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. Book Synopsis Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write. About the Book When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolens The Devils Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.

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