My Weird School Daze #2: Mr. Sunny Is Funny! [Library Binding]

Dan Gutman (Author), Jim Paillot (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: My Weird School Daze

A.J.'s family rented a beach house for the summer, and you'll never guess in a million hundred years who rented the house next door. Well, you have to read the book to find out. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you!*

*Okay, okay, it's Andrea and her family. And she has a monster crush on Mr. Sunny, the hunky (but weird) lifeguard. Ooooh! When are they gonna get married?

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About the Author

Dan Gutman has always been a baseball fanatic. He played in Little League as a kid, and one of the first magazine articles he ever sold explained the science behind the spitball, the scuffball, and corked bats. When he thought about the T206 Honus Wagner—the most valuable baseball card in the world—he began to write honus & me, his first Baseball Card Adventure. That book introduced Joe Stoshack—Stosh—a kid who can use baseball cards to travel through time and meet the game’s greatest players. Stosh has since gone on many amazing, fast-paced adventures, most recently to try to save Roberto Clemente.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Library Binding: 112 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (July 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061346101
• ISBN-13: 978-0061346101
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

This is hard. I'm a pretty regular Jersey guy who spent fifteen years trying to write newspaper articles, magazine articles, screenplays, books for adults, and just about everything else before I discovered the one thing I'm good at--writing fiction for kids. I aim for kids who DON'T like to read, and hopefully the kids who DO like to read will enjoy my stuff too. For all the gory details about me, check out my web site.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars continues the weird school tradition, August 29, 2008

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Miriam (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mr. Sunny is Funny! (My Weird School Daze, No. 2) (Paperback)

My 8 year old son loved this book. It is interesting in that it takes place away from the school, but still has most of the familiar characters. The reader gets a fun introduction to Mr. Granite, who makes an appearance in another book, later. If your child likes the weird school series, don't pass this one up!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars hmmmm!!!, October 29, 2010

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DD67 "babyonahill" (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mr. Sunny is Funny! (My Weird School Daze, No. 2) (Paperback)

I gave this a 3 star because I would give it a one and I am sure my 9 year old would give it a 5.

He just thinks it is hilarious, He loves that the girl Andrea is hated by the boy, since he also finds girls very annoying, he loves that the boy hates reading, since he hates reading, he loved the chapter that only had one paragraph, but was still considered a chapter, since I have to always negotiate with him every night how many chapters he should read. All his friends in school are reading these books, so he decided to try one.

What I liked about the book:

I liked the part where he figures out the number of weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds in his summer vacation. A great moment for a student to think about math.

I like the referrences to Shakespeare. He had never heard of him and he found it interesting but weird.

I liked that the book talks about the importance of mouth to mouth resuscitation.

What I hated about the book!!!!

The referrence to "SHakespeares butt"
The Nah nah nah boo boo part at the teacher.
The constant " I hate Andrea parts"

I am just not convinced that we should be encouraging this with our students just to get them to read. I am very worried about our children being introduced to this type of behavior more and more through tv and now books.

updated: A week later. My son who almost never gets in trouble has been sent to his room for talking back to me. If you haven't guessed it, "Nah nah nah boo boo" came out of his mouth when I was talking to him about some things I needed him to get done.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Good!, November 12, 2009

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mr. Sunny is Funny! (My Weird School Daze, No. 2) (Paperback)

As soon as I got it I was happy. When I read it it was really funny because weird stuff was happening. A person's worst enemy has to stay at a beach house with him. Luckily his 3 best friends are also staying with them. Even the cover looks hilarious. After I read it I couldn't wait till I got another book in this series.
By Robin, age 8