My weird school specials

The author of over 80 books in a little over a decade of writing Dan Gutman has written on topics from computers to baseball Beginning his freelance career as a nonfiction author dealing mostly with sports for adults and young readers Gutman has concentrated on juvenile fiction since 1995 His most popular titles include the time travel sports book Honus and Me and its sequels and a clutch of baseball books including The Green Monster from Left Field From hopeful and very youthful presidential candidates to stunt men nothing is off limits in Gutmans fertile imagination As he noted on his author Web site since writing his first novel They Came from Centerfield in 1994 he has been hooked on fiction It was fun to write kids lov The author of over 80 books in a little over a decade of writing Dan Gutman has written on topics from computers to baseball Beginning his freelance career as a nonfiction author dealing mostly with sports for adults and young readers Gutman has concentrated on juvenile fiction since 1995 His most popular titles include the time travel sports book Honus and Me and its sequels and a clutch of baseball books including The Green Monster from Left Field From hopeful and very youthful presidential candidates to stunt men nothing is off limits in Gutman s fertile imagination As he noted on his author Web site since writing his first novel They Came from Centerfield in 1994 he has been hooked on fiction It was fun to write kids loved it and I discovered how incredibly rewarding it is to take a blank page and turn it into a WORLD. My weird school special series in order Gutman was born in New York City in 1955 but moved to Newark New Jersey the following year and spent his youth there site_link AJ is visited by ghosts that resemble his principal and teachers They show him him past present and future it s very reminiscent of a Christmas Carol but with a wedding at the end lol Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction This one wasn t nearly as good as the others It was a pretty strange premise and I think it could ve been written better However I think this would be fun for younger kids to read Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction Not a favorite It just seemed to bluntly end Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction really funny Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction I expected this book for the parent child book club to be fun and summery but it was set during the end of the school year and they never even made it to summer It s a retelling of A Christmas Carol like soooo many other things and it is never subtle What made it worse was that there was no character development falling action resolution After the last ghost visits there is only one small chapter in which Arlo does decide to be nice but only out of fear of getting in trouble not in hopes of being a better person I don t think kids books need to have perfect heroic characters all the time but I think we should still expect especially when the treatment of the girl characters has been a little off putting in every book we ve read for the club so far Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction Funny book Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction Another title to add to the My Weird School series this special edition focuses on the night before the first day of summer vacation for A. My weird school special series J He is visited by his friend Billy the Underwearwolf who fortells the visits of three ghosts that night the ghost of summers past three ghosts of the present and eight ghosts of the future You guessed it this parody of A Christmas Carol takes A. My weird school special series J on what becomes a nightmare ride of his past bad behaviors and what will happen in his future if he does not change his ways Filled with puns silly gags funny footnotes and plenty of icky cootie boy girl passages this one is just right for fans of the series Since A. My weird school specials J identifies all the ghosts in the text his teachers and other adults he encounters daily you do not have to have read others in the series to appreciate this one On a side note kudos for mentioning reading Newbery books over the summer B W digital artwork by Jim Paillot adds to the humor the teachers look the same as in other titles in the series One error noted p. My weird school special series in order 9 shows him with what appear to be 3 color gray polka dot boxer shorts Appended in back are Weird Summer Facts games and puzzles with answer keys and trivia questions A fun light read to keep beginning chapter books busy this summer An optional purchase for grades 1 3 Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction I had not read a Weird School book until now In this book AJ is very excited about the impending summer break One night he has a series of ghosts who visit him a la A Christmas Carol to help him think about his behavior and how he can be a better person The humor is silly and the vocabulary is great I can see why this series is popular with kiddos Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction These books are a bit of a double edged sword my kid is loving them but he s also picking up some trash talk from them and I m the main recipient Childrens Books Nonfiction Fiction

My Weird School Special: Bummer in the Summer! By Dan Gutman

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Kindle Edition

my weird school special series in order

my weird school specials

With than 23 million books sold the My Weird School series really gets kids reading School s almost out for the summer and A. My weird school special series in order J s dream quickly turns into a nightmare when three familiar spirits appear to show him summers past present and yet to come Will they be able to convince him to leave his bad ways behind Or will this summer end up being a total bummer Bestselling author Dan Gutman brings his kid friendly sense of humor to this special series of after school chapter books featuring hilarious stories plus thirty two pages of games puzzles and This is one weird summer vacation special you won t want to miss My Weird School Special Bummer in the Summer.

. My weird school specials 10 describes the Underwearwolf as wearing white underwear and no pants p, My weird school special series J is dreaming about all the fun things he s going to do on vacation But A