Marvin Plotnik and the Sandy Rivers Hilltop Ranch for Wayward Youth, Juveniles, and Young Adults

By D.S. Thornton

"You're sending me to a boarding school? A redundantly-named boarding school?" Thus begins the adventures of ninth-grade graphic novelist and all-around-smart-aleck Marvin Plotnik. He's just been told by Finger-Wagging Authority Figures they've had enough of his shenanigans, thank you very much. (Apparently, bowling balls and maple syrup do not make for a good experiment.) They are Sending Him Away For His Own Good they tell him, Initial-Caps and all, and in two days' time he's to board a bus bound for the Sandy Rivers Hilltop Ranch for Wayward Youth, Juveniles, and Young Adults - which is like four states and a really disagreeable bus ride away. Which turns out to be nothing because in no time at all the whole lopsided "ranch" is careening through space with Marvin and his fellow travelers destined for a fate so dastardly, so disgusting, so culinary, we can't even hint at it without throwing up. Plus, the whole thing's really hard to deal with considering that stupid time-loop business. And being strung upside down over a vat of Serubian Bog Oil And having to listen to sappy '70s music. (i.e., Seriously Uncomfortable.) All of which, if you were to ask our young hero, gets really annoying (especially that hanging over the oil thing) because for the first time in young Marvin's life, he's totally fitting in. Now, if only he could hold back those pesky alien hordes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615653901
• ISBN13: 9780615653907
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Monkeypod Publishing
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"