Miss Small Is off the Wall! (My Weird School Series #5)

by Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot (Illustrator)

Overview

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

In the fifth book of the original My Weird School series, Ella Mentry’s gym teacher, Miss Small, is teaching A.J., Andrea, and the gang about fitness. But how can anyone stay in shape juggling scarves, balancing feathers, and doing the Chicken Dance? Whatever happened to freeze tag or dodgeball?

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.

This chapter book is an excellent choice to share with children ages 6 to 10 who are ready to read independently.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061973451
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/06/2009
Series:	My Weird School Series , #5
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,312,581
Lexile:	660L (what's this?)
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	6 - 10 Years

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 36 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.

Read an Excerpt

My Weird School #5: Miss Small Is off the Wall!

Chapter One

Fizz Ed is the Coolest

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

Well, I hate that reading and writing and arithmetic part of school, anyway. That stuff is for the birds!

There's only one thing about school that I like.

Fizz Ed.

Fizz Ed! I love Fizz Ed! Fizz Ed is the coolest! Fizz Ed isn't even like school at all. Fizz Ed is what you would be doing if you didn't have to go to school. If you ask me, school would be cool if we could just have Fizz Ed all day long and forget about all that boring reading and writing and arithmetic stuff.

Well, actually, to be honest, I've never had Fizz Ed. At my school, the Ella Mentry School, we didn't have Fizz Ed last year when we were in first grade. But my friend Billy around the corner goes to a different school. Billy's in third grade, and he told me that at his school they play dodgeball and basketball and football in Fizz Ed. They get to do anything they want.

Man, I wish I could go to Billy's school instead of boring old Ella Mentry School. I've been waiting forever until I got to second grade, when we would have Fizz Ed.

"Okay, everybody, it's time to line up," my teacher, Miss Daisy, announced one morning after we pledged the allegiance.

"Line up for what?" we all asked.

"Fizz Ed!" Miss Daisy said. "We're going to meet Miss Small in the gym."

"Yippee!"

My Weird School #5: Miss Small Is off the Wall!. Copyright © by Dan Gutman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.