Zack Files 27: My Teacher Ate My Homework [Paperback]

Dan Greenburg (Author), Jack E. Davis (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 26, 2002 | Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Zack Files (Book 27)

Zack's new substitute teacher seems kind of odd. And she is rather hairy. And get this, her name is Mrs. Wolfowitz! But is she really a werewolf? Or just one very weird lady who happens to like the taste of homework papers? Read on to find out!

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About the Author

Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read. With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England. Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (August 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0448426838
• ISBN-13: 978-0448426839
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #468,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read. With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England. Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Uhhh...................., November 15, 2005

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This review is from: Zack Files 27: My Teacher Ate My Homework (Paperback)

The Zack Files are not normally something you'd find on my bookshelf, but as I was recently forced to put down TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and pick up a couple TZFs to read to my brother (an agonizing experience. You try reading to a squirming seven year old intent on returning to his Power Rangers Battling Figures or, preferably, whacking his dear older sister with his collapsible plastic light saber), I figured I might as well make my voice heard.

I guess I'm a little too bored for the overall goodness of the world. I just finished TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (amazing book, by the way) and I have nothing to do.

MY TEACHER ATE MY HOMEWORK is an excellent example of literature for children incapable of reading on such subjects as racism, hatred, and revenge. The Zack Files books are a series that are bereft of those complex issues, and much more. In fact, they are bereft of pretty much everything desirable in a book, excepting, of course, the difficulties of one's body being possessed by the spirit of a long-dead Queen of England. Despite the air-filled nature of these, uh, novels, author Dan Greenburg manages to slip the phrases "my butt grew alarmingly," "he sweats a lot," and "I covered myself in a ripped-up cereal box, because my clothes were all gone" into every single one of his novels, even the ones without any of the above in their titles.

Oh well. If you're looking for something entertaining, especially if you're one of those second or third grade boys that go into spasms of hilarity upon hearing the word "butt", The Zack Files are a good bet. I'd say if you're over seven years, and you've achieved a more-or-less-corresponding degree of maturity, try something else.

Thanks for reading. Arantxa