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Editorial Review: What's worse than an arranged marriage? A "fiance" like Malcolm
Twelve-year-old Hannah believes she's been promised in marriage to Malcolm Murgatroyd, the son of her parents' best friends, who happens to be the biggest geek in her class. She knows that she'd be laughed right out of school if her friends knew about her embarrassing family history with the Murgadork. but Hannah can't just turn her back on him -- after all, he's the only person who knows how to cheer up her younger brother, whose muscular dystrophy has confined him to a wheelchair. In this bittersweet first novel, the engaging, true-to-life Hannah struggles to the realization that kindness and happiness don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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great book , 2006-07-25
Marrying Malcolm (by- Mesme Farrel)
This book is about the popular girl Hannah Billings. She is just the girl who wants to be liked and popular everything that Malcolm Murgatroyd is not. He is basically a person who does not fit in. He is bad at sports, carries around a stuffed- animal, and many embarrassing things. But Hanna's parents, and his parents have been friends like forever, and Hannah has grown up with Malcolm, but no one else knows this. This is her secret, and she tries to keep it while writing her autobiography, but of course this is hard. Hannah has a brother named Ian, and he has Muscular Dystrophy, and he is in a wheel-chair. The condition is a big struggle for her to face, but Malcolm always makes Ian feel better. Malcolm just is different, he is special. Hannah has to choose to be popular or to do what is right, and to deal with (what her parents have planned) marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd.
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Taylor loves It!!!, 2005-10-27
Marrying Malcom Mugatroyd is a fiction novel written by Mame Farrell. Once I started reading, I got hooked. It's about a sweet, young girl, named Hannah, and basically her life. It's a must read book.
Hannah is a 6th grade girl trying to fit in. She is embarresed of the fact that her family is best friends with the school nerd, Malcom. She is acually promised to him!!! He is teased and made fun of almost every day by almost every body. She finds her self sticking up for him because of the fact that he is her brother's, Ian, best and only friend. Ian has a tough life because of his muscular dystrophy. Which means he rolls around his his wheel chair. Hannah goes through some hard and some funny times. Including her first boy-girl party, Ian being rushed to the hospital, holding hands with her dream boy, plus all the normal things teenagers worry about. She just hopes nobody finds out about her secret and embarresing life with Malcom.
Even though it's a fiction book, I could easily relate to it. The characters were all very well known and very beilievable.
This story is a funny, make you smile, make you cry kind of book. Even her friends admit that "Hannah is just a nice person." I loved it.
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Murgatroyd is Marvelous, 2004-03-11
Malcolm Murgatroyd is a geek. Hannah is friends with Malcolm and she is a cool girl. Hannah doesn't want anyone to know that Malcolm's mom and dad and her mom and dad are friends. She makes Malcolm swear that he won't tell anyone that they are friends too because she wants to keep up her cool act with her school friends. Hannah has a brother named Ian who has Muscular Dystrophy. Malcolm is the only one that can make Ian laugh. Hannah's mom and dad constantly tell her that one day she'll marry someone like Malcolm which drives Hannah crazy. Will Hannah decide that Malcolm is A-OK or keep up the secret friendship with him? Read the book and find out!
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Handling Peer Pressure, 2000-11-10
Our mother-daughter book club read this book when the girls were in 4th grade. The girls said this was one of the best books we had read because this was what "it really felt like" for them in school. They felt it accurately portrayed how kids treat the "nerds" or kids who are different in school and how hard it is to stick up for those being picked on for fear of getting the same treatment done to you. It is a great discussion book for schools, parents and kids, etc. I was really surprised when my daughter said that she would have done exactly what Hannah did at the party because it's too hard to go against the crowd. It led to a wonderful learning opportunity. She then suggested to her teacher that they read it in school because her class was dealing with a similar incident.
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Exelent Book, great suspense, fabulous plot, 1999-12-02
I think that you should definatly read this book, but only if you are 10 and a half or older, because it's kind of intense.When I read this book I was in 4th grade, but then again, in 4th grade I hade an 8th grad reading level. Anyway, if you want to read a fantastic, well writen book, READ THIS ONE!
