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The Legend of Spud Murphy

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The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer

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By Eoin Colfer

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60 reviews

During the holidays, Will and his big brother Marty are packed off to the library, the home of the dreaded librarian Spud Murphy, who uses a spud gun on kids who put a foot wrong. Eventually, Will and Marty discover a love of books and that Mrs Murphy isn’t so bad after all. Ages 8+.

Reviews

01 Jul 2024

i like the spud theme instead of potatos

28 Aug 2023

I like Will because he likes to read books like me.

25 Aug 2023

I liked how Spuds character changed throughout the book.

20 Jul 2023

Spud scared me a little bit it was a good book

07 Jul 2023

I liked the plot of this story and it was very funny

24 Aug 2022

I like spud murphy she is nice to will and marty
yes I recommend

10 Aug 2022

I like when spud stamped ‘I love barbies’ on Marty’s arm, and when Will started reading about Finn MacCool. I thought it was funny when the brothers were arguing about who owned the air in there bedroom

06 Aug 2022

It was alright

30 Jul 2022

It was funny.It was a good book.Will because he was good.It was in library.6 and over.

26 Jul 2022

I enjoyed this book because the librarian had a spud gun.

09 Sep 2021

The characters were believable and fun.
I liked the references to other familiar books.
There was suspense and a twist at the end that I really enjoyed

30 Aug 2021

it was funny and a bit scary

22 Aug 2021

I think this book was a good book because Spud Murphy likes to read great books.He is very, very brave and funny.My favourite character in the book is Frank because he is nice. I would recommend this book to everyone who loves adventures book.

14 Aug 2021

Funny book

12 Aug 2021

funny

will

yes

11 Aug 2021

1. i thought this book is amasingly funny

2. I loved mrs murphy because she encorages reading books

3. i wou ld love to recommend this book to somone else

06 Aug 2021

I thought this book was not that good because Marty and his brother were just in a library trying to get away with things.

At the end I quite enjoyed it because Will got the blue card which means you can read adult books.

The person I liked best in this book was Marty because he was very cheeky but at the end he realised what he had done wrong.

Yes I would recommend the book to someone else because in the book Ms Murphy/Spud Murphy was strict and funny because she tricked Marty into getting a rubber stamp that says, "I love Barbie."

04 Aug 2021

My favourite character is Spud Murphy because she helped the boys to like books. She’s also friendly and nice if the children behave well.

27 Jul 2021

could be better...

27 Jul 2021

I thought this was amazing. The vocabulary was really interesting. The story was very funny. My favourite bit was when spud put a stamp on Marty’s arm.

17 Jul 2021

I think that this book is fun to read. Also it was a good book to read. The thing that had intrested me was the images and the speach it had in the book.I liked Marty in the book because he is funny.

14 Sep 2020

I think I can recommend this book because it is quite a good book. I found this book in my big brother's room. My favourite character was Martin who was the second main character's big brother. He is very cheeky - like me!

01 Sep 2020

Fantastic! I would recomend it to all adventure readers

30 Aug 2020

This book was ok but a bit bad. There was lots of non-exciting bits in it.

21 Aug 2020

good

09 Aug 2020

Didnt like it.

28 Jul 2020

i think it was a good one because it shows how people can imagine things in their head

23 Jul 2020

It was good and my favourite character is spud Murphy

09 Jul 2020

It was an amazing and a very good book to read, I really enjoyed it. It was quite funny because when his brother challenged him to get a book from the adult section he got rewarded with an adults card instead of a child’s card. My favourite character was spud Murphy the librarian because she was really mean but when the kids got to know her she was really friendly. Yes I would recommend.

06 Jul 2020

It was very halrious espesally when Spud Murphy stamped I LOVE BARBIE on Marty's fore arm. I would reccommed to anyone who loves funny and short books!

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