John Grogan

Overview: Make way for Marley! When the Grogan family is ready for a dog, they choose Marley, a yellow furball of a puppy who quickly grows into a large, rowdy Labrador retriever. Marley has a zest for life, and as he grows, so does his enthusiasm. He has an appetite for whatever he can get his paws on - from fine jewelry to underwear - and the one thing he always finds is trouble. Marley even gets kicked out of obedience school! Can this rambunctious...

Marley, a rambunctious puppy, makes himself at home while causing lots of trouble, but then proves in a very dramatic way that he is a valuable member of the household.

Marley spots two motherless kittens by the side of the road and his family gladly adopts them, but as he tries to copy the cute behavior of the little felines, the large puppy causes more and more trouble.

Marley learns that no matter how tasty he should not eat Cassie's homework, and wonders how to make it up to her. Marley has been waiting all day to play with Cassie, but when she gets home there's still work to be done! Cassie is making a model of the solar system for school, using fruit to represent each of the planets. When all the work is done, Daddy hangs the model in the dining room for all to see . . . including Marley. Marley doesn't like...

Collects more than seventy-five "Philadelphia Inquirer" columns by John Grogan that cover such topics as families, animals, and life in modern America.

A collection of more than eighty newspaper articles witten by John Grogan when he was a columnist at the Philadelphia inquirer.

"From picking out a tree to hanging stockings, Marley tries his best to help out. Has he been good enough to get a present on Christmas day?"--P. [4] of cover.

Marley's family takes extra care in getting their blue-ribbon pumpkin to the fair, but with a dog like Marley around, being careful isn't always enough.

When Cassie goes to her first baseball game with her father, Marley comes along, and he wants to get onto the field and play baseball too.