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    My Weird School Fast Facts: Explorers, Presidents, and Toilets
    My Weird School Fast Facts: Explorers, Presidents, and Toilets
    My Weird School Fast Facts: Explorers, Presidents, and Toilets
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    My Weird School Fast Facts: Explorers, Presidents, and Toilets

    By Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot

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    Think fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School! 

    Did you know that the word “independence” never appears in the Declaration of Independence? Did you know that soldiers in World War I collected thousands of glowworms in jars to help them see at night?!

    Learn more weird-but-true U.S. history facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman’s bestselling My Weird School series. This all-new series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterical facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations.

    Whether you're a kid who wants to learn more about our country's history or simply someone who wants to know how many Americans are involved in toilet-related injuries each year, this is the book for you!

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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9780062306258
    My Weird School Fast Facts: Explorers, Presidents, and Toilets
    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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      My Weird School Fast Facts - Dan Gutman

      Dedication

      To Emma

      Contents

      Dedication

      The Beginning

      Chapter 1: Who Discovered America Anyway?

      Chapter 2: The United States Is Born!

      Chapter 3: The Colonists Are Revolting!

      Chapter 4: The Declaration of Independence

      Chapter 5: The Constitution

      Chapter 6: A Few Founding Fathers Fast Facts

      Chapter 7: It’s Getting Bigger!

      Chapter 8: Rise of the Machines!

      Chapter 9: The Civil War

      Chapter 10: The World Wars

      Chapter 11: Weird Fast Facts about the Presidents

      Chapter 12: Everything That Happened after World War II

      Chapter 13: The History of the Toilet!

      The Ending

      Back Ads

      About the Author and Illustrator

      Books by Dan Gutman

      Credits

      Photo Credits

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      My name is Andrea and I love history!

      Oh no! It’s Andrea Young, that annoying girl in my class with curly brown hair! Who said you could take over my book?

      It’s our book, Arlo!* Not your book. We’re supposed to talk about history together.

      History? Are you kidding me? History is the most boring subject in the history of the world! Nobody wants to read about a bunch of dead guys.

      History is fascinating, Arlo! And it’s not just about dead guys. When we learn about US history, we’re learning about how our country came to be. That’s important!

      I’ll tell you what’s important. Tissues! If we didn’t have tissues, how would I blow my nose?

      Ignore him. Arlo just wants attention. If he doesn’t want to talk about the history of the United States, then I will. He can just sit there and blow his nose if he wants to.

      Nothing doing! I am Professor A.J., and I already forgot more history than Andrea will ever learn. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on her. I know everything that’s worth knowing. For instance, did you know how America came to be discovered? Well, I’ll tell you.

      It all started in 1492. Columbus told the Pilgrims to go sail to America because he was busy playing video games. The Pilgrims hired George Washington to write the Gettysburg Address in his underwear, and the next thing anybody knew, Neil Armstrong was standing on the moon taking selfies! And that’s everything you need to know about American history.

      That’s just ridiculous, Arlo, and you know it! None of that is true.

      Yeah, but some people will fall for anything! That just goes to show that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in a book. Especially a My Weird School book! But I know lots of real history too. I bet you didn’t know that President Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon named Rebecca, and he let her roam around the White House. That’s a true fast fact! Look it up if you don’t believe me. I could tell you a lot more cool stuff about American history, but I’d rather blow my nose.

      Mrs. Grace Coolidge with Rebecca

      Professor A.J.

      (the professor of awesomeness)

      The professor of being obnoxious is more like it. Okay, let’s get started. We have a lot of ground to cover. I guess we should start from the beginning.

      A lot of people think Christopher Columbus discovered North America, but there’s a name for those people—dopes! The truth is that Leif Eriksson and the Vikings arrived here almost five centuries before Columbus. Five hundred years! That’s more years than my grandparents are old. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on Columbus!

      It’s not very nice to call people dopes, but I must admit Arlo is right. Around the year AD 1000, the Vikings sailed all the way from Scandinavia—that’s Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—and landed in what we now call Canada.

      They also landed in Minnesota, and started a football team there. It was called the Minnesota Vikings.

      Okay, you made that up, Arlo! The truth is that the Vikings were not known to be very nice people. Some were pirates who burned villages, killed people, and raided and plundered whatever they wanted.

      By the way,

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