The Dan Gutman Collection (Boxed Set): The Homework Machine; Return of the Homework Machine; Nightmare at the Book Fair; The Talent Show

by Dan Gutman

Four of Dan Gutman’s funniest novels are now available together in a paperback boxed set for the first time!

Middle school is hard enough but throw in an out of control machine that does your homework for you, novels that come to life and trap you in their pages, and an extremely bizarre talent show competition, and it can be a real nightmare! This fun four-in-one collection introduces young readers to the world of Dan Gutman, full of humorous hijinks and mayhem filled adventures that make your middle school seem downright normal!

This collectible boxed set includes paperback editions of The Homework Machine , Return of the Homework Machine , Nightmare at the Book Fair , and The Talent Show .

816 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2016

About the author

The author of over 80 books in a little over a decade of writing, Dan Gutman has written on topics from computers to baseball. Beginning his freelance career as a nonfiction author dealing mostly with sports for adults and young readers, Gutman has concentrated on juvenile fiction since 1995. His most popular titles include the time-travel sports book Honus and Me and its sequels, and a clutch of baseball books, including The Green Monster from Left Field. From hopeful and very youthful presidential candidates to stunt men, nothing is off limits in Gutman's fertile imagination. As he noted on his author Web site, since writing his first novel, They Came from Centerfield, in 1994, he has been hooked on fiction. "It was fun to write, kids loved it, and I discovered how incredibly rewarding it is to take a blank page and turn it into a WORLD."

Gutman was born in New York City in 1955, but moved to Newark, New Jersey the following year and spent his youth there.

Reviews

[Bug246810 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read all of these. nightmare at the book fair was a little confusing, but at the end it all made sense. I love books that switch around points of view, such as the candymakers and the wings of fire, and the homework machine also did it. the return of the homework machine was a good sequel, and I think that they did a good job with Milner (I think that that is his name at least...) in the first one, making it so that he could easily come back. the talent show was just great.