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My Weirdest School #8
Mrs. Master Is a Disaster!
It’s Grandparents Day at Ella Mentry School! Alexia’s grandmother Mrs. Master makes weird inventions for a living, but A.J. and the gang come up with the weirdest invention of all. And they’re going to make a bazillion dollars from it! Will they succeed? Or will their great big idea be flushed down the drain?
112 pages, Paperback
Published June 20, 2017
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Dan Gutman
364 books1,037 followersThe 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.
Gutman was born in New York City in 1955, but moved to Newark, New Jersey the following year and spent his youth there.
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November 11, 2017
Gutman, Dan Mrs. Master is a Disaster! (My Weirdest School, #8), 105 pgs. Illustrated by Jim Paillot CHAPTER BOOK Harper, 2017. $4.99 Content: G.
After Grandparents Day at the school, A.J. is inspired by Alexia’s grandmother who is an inventor. A.J. with the help of his friends, teachers and Alexia’s grandmother decides to invent a “Party Pooper”. The Party Pooper is a heated, light up toilet seat that will have a conversation with the person sitting on it. After making and selling a thousand of these seats, the product malfunctions and starts on fire so they have to take them all back. In the end they say “Oh well”.
This is one of those books that as an adult I have many issues with including, but not limited to, the amount of “potty” talk, characters calling each other “dumbhead” and the unrealitistic fact that teachers put up thousands of their own dollars for the toilet seats and then everyone just said “oh well” when it didn’t work out. That said, my second grade son loves this series. The illustrations are cartoon-ish and entertaining, the humor is right on par for a seven year old boy and the vocabulary is simple and makes for an easy read.
EL (K-3) – ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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After Grandparents Day at the school, A.J. is inspired by Alexia’s grandmother who is an inventor. A.J. with the help of his friends, teachers and Alexia’s grandmother decides to invent a “Party Pooper”. The Party Pooper is a heated, light up toilet seat that will have a conversation with the person sitting on it. After making and selling a thousand of these seats, the product malfunctions and starts on fire so they have to take them all back. In the end they say “Oh well”.
This is one of those books that as an adult I have many issues with including, but not limited to, the amount of “potty” talk, characters calling each other “dumbhead” and the unrealitistic fact that teachers put up thousands of their own dollars for the toilet seats and then everyone just said “oh well” when it didn’t work out. That said, my second grade son loves this series. The illustrations are cartoon-ish and entertaining, the humor is right on par for a seven year old boy and the vocabulary is simple and makes for an easy read.
EL (K-3) – ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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August 15, 2020
This book talks about AJ and his friends met Mrs Master, which is an inventor on Grandparents Day at Ella Mentry School, they invented the weirdest invention of all, they made a heated, scented talking toilet seat which glows it the dark. But when they sold it they succeeded but lost the machine malfunctioned.
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June 7, 2021
Genre: Comedy and Humor Grade: 2-3
This book was pretty funny, there is lots of little jokes. I think kids could relate to the funny silly sayings in this book. Overall it is a humorous good read that holds your attention with a great story line.
This book was pretty funny, there is lots of little jokes. I think kids could relate to the funny silly sayings in this book. Overall it is a humorous good read that holds your attention with a great story line.
August 22, 2023
Its Grandparents Day at Ella Mentry school. Alexia's grandmother Mrs. Master makes weird inventions for a living. But A.J. and the gang come up with weirdest invention of all. They're going to make million dollars from it! Will they succeed? Or will their great big idea be flushed down a drain.
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August 30, 2017
Too silly. But MT loved it. :(
January 27, 2022
Great book
Good best book ever I liked it so so much Please make more books for kids they are so funny
Good best book ever I liked it so so much Please make more books for kids they are so funny
May 3, 2018
Rapping about toliet seats! Invention time!
October 9, 2018
The whole child entrepreneur part was pretty fun, but I did not enjoy how everyone started to give up on school because they owned a business.
July 7, 2019
I Really liked it. I Just wished they did finish the Party Pooper. Nice book, though.
August 25, 2020
😂 So funny
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