Author Nan Marino

Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me

Latest Book: Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me (Roaring Brook Press)

Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year-old.  The problem is that no one on Ramble Street knows it, but me.

Muscle Man McGinty can certainly tell some whoppers, but this time he’s done the unthinkable.  He bragged he can beat the entire block in a game of kickball!   On Ramble Street, tough talk about kickball cannot be ignored.  For Tamara Ann Simpson this is great news. Now she’ll finally be able to prove to everyone what a wormy little runt Muscle Man really is. Of course things would be a lot easier if her best friend Kebsie Grobser were here to help her…

It’s the summer of 1969 and the world is getting ready for a man named Neil Armstrong to make history by taking the first step on the moon. But change happens a bit more slowly in Massapequa Park, and it’ll take one giant leap for Tamara to understand the likes of Muscle Man McGinty.

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Web site: www.nanmarino.com

Nan Marino spent her childhood daydreaming in oak trees and on top of garage roofs in the town of Massapequa, New York. Coincidentally Massapequa is the setting for her debut middle grade novel Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me published by Roaring Brook Press (May 2009). A librarian who lives at the Jersey shore with her husband and a very quirky dog, Nan still spends her time daydreaming, but mostly now it’s from the ground, staring out at the Barnegat Bay.