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Jan 24, 2013
Marshall Armstrong, the new boy at school, is different from the other kids in just about every way: he wears a jacket and tie and a straw boater hat, eats "space food" from oddly labeled silver packets, and doesn't play at recess. This book's narrator, one of Marshall's new classmates, is incensed when his mom makes him go to Marshall's birthday party ... but as it turns out, Marshall's brand of "different" is spectacular! This book's quirky, dynamic illustrations are almost as much fun as Marshall's party, and the lesson to give new things (and people) a chance is subtly yet indelibly delivered. Picture books January 2013.