In this sequel to the popular Marvin and the Mean Words, Marvin returns for another round of watching his mouth. Marvin was always the one who said mean things in class, but now there's someone even meaner than he is! She's new and her name is Lucy. As Marvin makes one blunder after another trying to prove that Lucy's meaner than he is, he ends up looking worse and worse himself! Only when he finds out that Lucy's favorite grandmother has just died does Marvin feel a little sorry for his actions.

Illustrated by Blanche Sims

"Kline's classroom scenarios have a wonderful immediacy. The story and characters could lend themselves to lively classroom discussion about words that hurt."-- Booklist