My Weird School Daze #10: Miss Mary Is Scary!

Dan Gutman

Jul 2010 · My Weird School Daze Book 10 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

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

Something weird is going on! In the tenth book of the My Weird School Daze series, Mr. Granite has been assigned a student teacher, and A.J. and the gang think she might be a vampire. Miss Mary lives in a cave and sleeps hanging upside down from the ceiling. Her boyfriend, Zack, looks like a zombie and plays in a heavy metal band. And worst of all, they're British! Quick, get the garlic!

Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, bestselling author Dan Gutman’s insanely popular My Weird School series has something for everyone. Don’t forget to join A.J. and the gang on the rest of their hilariously weird adventures in the third grade.

 

Ratings and reviews

I bought this book based on all the good reviews, but I hate to say that I did not enjoy it. I really liked it for the first few chapters, but it became very dull after that. My five year old daughter lost interest when it turned into a love story and didn't have anything to do with being scary.

The third grade teacher, Mr. Granite, wouldn't ignore Miss Mary and her boyfriend named Zack. They start smooching! Mr. Granite won't ignore them for a math lesson! Mr. Granite is from another planet! Mr. Granite isn't the only one who hates Zack, but Mr. Klutz, the principal, of the school hates Zack! Mr. Klutz is nuts! Miss Mary is the weirdest student teacher in the history of the world! And a song called I Love Dirt is a song that's going to be on T.V. and Zack plays it! Even Mr. Granite totally loses his mind and starts being simply grumpy that Zack will never ever stop interrupting his math lesson!

This book was on display at our public library for suggested Halloween books and my 9 yo daughter checked it out. She was reading aloud to me and at the bottom of page 5 there is a paragraph (that has nothing to do with the story) that says “*What are you looking down here for? The story’s up there, dumb head!” We teach our daughter not to call names and I thought this was very inappropriate for a children’s book.

About the author

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.

Jim Paillot lives in Arizona (another weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children. Isn’t that weird? You can visit him on his weird website at jimpaillot.com.