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    My Weird School Daze #12: Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!
    My Weird School Daze #12: Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!
    My Weird School Daze #12: Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!
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    My Weird School Daze #12: Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!

    By Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot

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    With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!

    Oh no! In this twelfth book in the My Weird School Daze series, kids are getting too unhealthy, so Ella Mentry School has hired a health teacher to help the kids eat right and exercise.

    Ms. Leakey is a real health nut. She makes a punching bag filled with junk food! She designs a robot that smokes and drinks! She opens up a fast food restaurant that sells broccoli burgers! She puts sunscreen on her car!

    Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutman's hugely popular My Weird School series has something for everyone. Don't miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 22, 2011
    ISBN9780062069733
    My Weird School Daze #12: Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!
    Author

    Dan Gutman

    Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series; the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world; and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 35 million copies. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife. You can visit him online at dangutman.com.

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    • 4/5
      An eccentric health teacher descends upon Ella Mentry School to teach healthy eating habits, by force if necessary. This humorous tale uses a lot of exaggerated superlative language like, “the most amazing thing in the history of the world,” which is repeated about a dozen times throughout the course of the book. The adult characters do some weird stuff, such as build a robot which drinks beer in class, but this is offset by one of the characters wondering out loud if these things are really appropriate for children. There are also a lot of references to chemical food products such as sodium acid pyrophosphate, but it is made clear that these are big confusing words that make little sense. Other teachers from the “My Weird School Daze” series appear in this book, helping tie in this book with the rest of the series in a manner which doesn’t feel forced. The chapter where the health teacher opens her own restaurant could have easily been edited out of the narrative, but otherwise this is a lighthearted tale with a good moral about healthy eating while not going “overboard.” The digital cartoon illustrations tie in well with the comical tone and are often exaggerated in a similar nature as the text. The scattered illustrations help break up the text without making it look too young for its audience, and the length of 102 pages adds a sense of achievement to completing this transitional chapter book. Recommended for children ages seven to eight.

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    My Weird School Daze #12 - Dan Gutman

    1

    Health Nuts

    My name is A.J. and I hate school.

    I go to Ella Mentry School. It was named after an old lady named Ella Mentry.

    Every time I tell somebody I go to Ella Mentry School, they always ask, Which one?

    I told you, I say. Ella Mentry School.

    "Everybody goes to elementary school," they always say.

    No they don’t, I tell them.

    Yes they do.

    See what I mean? If you ask me, it would have been a lot smarter if they named my school after somebody famous, like George Washington or Lady Gaga.

    My teacher is Mr. Granite, who is from another planet. It was Monday morning. Mr. Granite said we had to go to an assembly.* I sat with my friends Michael, Ryan, and Neil, who we call the nude kid even though he wears clothes. In front of us sat crybaby Emily and Andrea Young, this annoying girl with curly brown hair that I hate.

    After we pledged the allegiance, our principal, Mr. Klutz, climbed up on the stage. He has no hair at all. Mr. Klutz used to have hair, but it fell out. That’s what happens when guys get old. I wonder if he still has his hair in a plastic bag at home so he can look at it and remember what it was like to be young.

    Everybody was talking. So Mr. Klutz made a peace sign with his fingers, which means Shut up! We all stopped talking.

    Kids today eat too much junk food, he told us. Too much fat and too much sugar. And you don’t get enough exercise. That’s why I hired Ms. Leakey, our new health teacher. She would like to say a few words.

    Ms. Leakey came bounding up on the stage like she was in a race or something. We gave her a round of applause by clapping our hands in big circles. She was holding a garbage can cover in one hand and a sword in the other hand. That was weird.

    Thank you, Ms. Leakey said. "I’d like to introduce you to my best friends. I hope they’ll become your best friends too."

    Our media specialist, Mrs. Roopy, came out from behind the curtain. Only she wasn’t dressed like a media specialist. She was wearing a big banana costume.

    Then our reading specialist, Mr. Macky, came out. He was dressed up like a giant peanut.

    Behind Mr. Macky was our school nurse, Mrs. Cooney. She had on a carrot costume. And all three of them were holding swords.

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