Back to school, weird kids rule!

Format:

Book

Title:

Back to school, weird kids rule!

Author:

Gutman, Dan author

ISBN:

9780062206855

9780062206862

9781480650657

9780606355025

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]

Physical Description:

106 pages, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series title(s):

My weird school special.

General Note:

Extras Games! Puzzles! and more! inside.

Contents:

"Summer is almost over, and you know what that means -- time to head back to school! But when a tropical storm ends A.J.'s vacation earlier than expected, he and his family have to stay at Andrea's house. Ugh, disgusting! When everyone in the house starts getting cabin fever, and even back-to-school shopping won't calm the kids down, Andrea and A.J. are sent to Camp Ockatollyquay. The catch? It's a camp to get kids ready for school! But not to worry -- Andrea and A.J. rally the Ella Mentry School gang to end their summer on a note they'll never forget."

Summary:

"Summer is almost over, and you know what that means--time to head back to school! But when a tropical storm ends A.J.'s vacation earlier than expected, he and his family have to stay at Andrea's house. Ugh, disgusting! When everyone in the house starts getting cabin fever, and even back-to-school shopping won't calm the kids down, Andrea and A.J. are sent to Camp Ockatollyquay. The catch? It's a camp to get kids ready for school! But not to worry--Andrea and A.J. rally the Ella Mentry School gang to end their summer on a note they'll never forget"-- from publisher's web site.

Reading Level:

Grades 1-5.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.8 1.0 168963.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.1 5 Quiz: 64097.

Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 3.8 1 Quiz 168963 English fiction.

Subject(s):

School children -- Juvenile fiction.

Vacations -- Juvenile fiction.

Camps -- Juvenile fiction.

Summer -- Juvenile fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.

School children -- Fiction

Vacations -- Fiction

Camps -- Fiction

Summer -- Fiction

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction

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Summary

With more than 12 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!

Summer is almost over, and you know what that means--time to head back to school! But when a tropical storm ends A.J.'s vacation earlier than expected, he and his family have to stay at Andrea's house. Ugh, disgusting!

Soon after, everyone in the house starts getting cabin fever, and even back-to-school shopping won't calm the kids down. So, Andrea and A.J. are sent to Camp Ockatollyquay. The catch It's a camp to get kids ready for school! But not to worry--Andrea and A.J. rally their Ella Mentry School friends to end their summer on a note they'll never forget.

Join A.J. and the gang from My Weird School in this special series of after-school, holiday-themed chapter books featuring hilarious stories and thirty-two pages of games, puzzles, and more. This is one weird back-to-school special you won't want to miss!

Author Notes

Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He received a degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a full-time writer. He wrote several non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, My Weird School series, My Weird School Daze series, My Weirder School series, and The Genius Files series. In 2014 his title, Texas with Love, which was the fourth book in the Genius Files Series, made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Booklist Review

The tables are turned in this amusing addition to the My Weird School Special series. Yes, it's weird to have a My Weird School book set during summer vacation, but it's doubly weird when A.J. and his classroom nemesis, Andrea, are living under the same roof for a week. Weirder still, the story is narrated by Andrea, who refers to A.J. as Arlo or (weirdest yet) my boyfriend and future husband. A.J. may be in agony, but Andrea is in her element as they shop for school supplies and even attend a back-to-school day camp together. Gutman's clearly enjoying himself, creating a memorably wacky pen salesman within the story and offering a history of school supplies, several activity pages, and some My Weird School Daze trivia questions in the back matter. Series fans will find plenty to amuse them, from A.J.'s novel ideas about playing with Andrea's Barbie collection to Paillot's accessible, digital illustrations. Weirdly fun.--Phelan, Carolyn Copyright 2014 Booklist