You won't find Grubtown on any maps.
The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory, and calling for their mothers. It's certainly a town and certainly grubby -- except for the squeaky clean parts -- but everything else we know about the place comes from Beardy Ardagh, a town resident and author of these tales.
Grubtown is full of oddballs -- from the singing Grumbly girls to a family of duck-haters, and an out-sized mayor who's knitting a new house -- but Manual Org is too repulsive even for them.
Getting him to leave town is a top priority until the discovery of a humongous diamond changes everything...
Age - 8+
Grade - 2+
Author - Philip Ardagh
Publisher - Scholastic
Format - Paperback
Pages - 120
Dimensions - 13.3 x 1.3 x 19 cm
