num_pages: 128
description: What's worse than an arranged marriage? A "fiance" like MalcolmTwelve-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.
language: English
title: Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd
titlecomplete: Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd
genres: Young Adult, Childrens, Chapter Books
ratings_count: 101
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)