While Mrs North, Marvin's teacher, is on holiday she asks him to look after Waldo - her dog. Suddenly, Marvin has become the luckiest boy in school. He'll get to sniff about Mrs North's house, look in her wardrobe, check out her bathroom and rummage in her fridge ...Well that's what Stuart and Nick, his best friends, would like to do. But Marvin takes things a little more seriously. After all, he gets paid $3 a day and he will get a bonus on top if everything goes smoothly. What could possibly go wrong? Just how long can Marvin hold on to his luck...Louis Sachar tells this tale with a refreshing and bold frankness and again the characters are vividly portrayed in this the fourth of the series.Marvin的級(jí)任老師Mrs. North有事要出遠(yuǎn)門一周,除找了一位老師代課外,她希望Marvin可以每天定時(shí)去她家照顧心愛(ài)的小狗并把信件拿進(jìn)屋內(nèi)。班上有那么多同學(xué),老師卻只信任Marvin而把鑰匙交給他,這是多么光榮的一件事,還有薪水及獎(jiǎng)金可領(lǐng)呢!雖然Marvin很盡力做好老師交代的每一件事,但老師的狗卻莫名其妙地死了,Marvin會(huì)接受同學(xué)的建議轉(zhuǎn)學(xué)到別的學(xué)校以避開(kāi)老師的怒氣?或者應(yīng)該勇敢面對(duì)現(xiàn)實(shí)?作者以細(xì)膩的筆觸描寫(xiě)Marvin的心境變換及同學(xué)們對(duì)Marvin態(tài)度的轉(zhuǎn)變,使這本書(shū)更值得推薦給讀者。While Mrs North, Marvin's teacher, is on holiday she asks him to look after Waldo - her dog. Suddenly, Marvin has become the luckiest boy in school. He'll get to sniff about Mrs North's house, look in her wardrobe, check out her bathroom and rummage in her fridge ...Well that's what Stuart and Nick, his best friends, would like to do. But Marvin takes things a little more seriously. After all, he gets paid $3 a day and he will get a bonus on top if everything goes smoothly. What could possibly go wrong? Just how long can Marvin hold on to his luck...Louis Sachar tells this tale with a refreshing and bold frankness and again the characters are vividly portrayed in this the fourth of the series.Marvin的級(jí)任老師Mrs. North有事要出遠(yuǎn)門一周,除找了一位老師代課外,她希望Marvin可以每天定時(shí)去她家照顧心愛(ài)的小狗并把信件拿進(jìn)屋內(nèi)。班上有那么多同學(xué),老師卻只信任Marvin而把鑰匙交給他,這是多么光榮的一件事,還有薪水及獎(jiǎng)金可領(lǐng)呢!雖然Marvin很盡力做好老師交代的每一件事,但老師的狗卻莫名其妙地死了,Marvin會(huì)接受同學(xué)的建議轉(zhuǎn)學(xué)到別的學(xué)校以避開(kāi)老師的怒氣?或者應(yīng)該勇敢面對(duì)現(xiàn)實(shí)?作者以細(xì)膩的筆觸描寫(xiě)Marvin的心境變換及同學(xué)們對(duì)Marvin態(tài)度的轉(zhuǎn)變,使這本書(shū)更值得推薦給讀者。