Nancy McArthur

Nancy McArthur is an American children's author. Living in Berea, Ohio, she is a part-time journalism professor at Baldwin-Wallace College.^[1] She has written fourteen books, nine of which form a series called The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks. The series follows the lives of two young brothers, Michael and Norman, along with their sentient pet plants, Stanley and Fluffy. The first book in this series is the most popular book she has written.^[2] She reworked this book into a play in 2000.^[3]

Works

• Megan Gets a Dollhouse (1988)
• Pickled Peppers (1988)
• The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1988)
• The Adventure of the Buried Treasure (1990)
• The Return of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1990)
• The Adventure of the Backyard Sleepout (1992)
• The Escape Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1992)
• The Secret Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1993)
• More Adventures Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1994)
• The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Up In Space (1995)
• The Mystery Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1996)
• The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Gets A Girlfriend (1997)
• The Adventure of the Big Snow (1998)
• The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Hollywood (1999)

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