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My Weird School Fast Facts
My Weird School Fast Facts: Space, Humans, and Farts
Think fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School!
Did you know that the planet Jupiter has at least fifty moons? Did you know that Albert Einstein’s brain was stolen after he died?!
Learn more weird-but-true science facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman’s bestselling My Weird School series. This all-new series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterically informative facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations throughout. This book combines the characters that readers know and love with fun and educational trivia.
Whether you’re a kid who wants to learn more about science or simply someone who wants to know how many million times the earth could fit into the sun, this is the book for you!
With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!
Did you know that the planet Jupiter has at least fifty moons? Did you know that Albert Einstein’s brain was stolen after he died?!
Learn more weird-but-true science facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman’s bestselling My Weird School series. This all-new series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterically informative facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations throughout. This book combines the characters that readers know and love with fun and educational trivia.
Whether you’re a kid who wants to learn more about science or simply someone who wants to know how many million times the earth could fit into the sun, this is the book for you!
With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!
192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 20, 2017
431 people are currently reading
134 people want to read
About the author
Dan Gutman
364 books1,038 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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December 9, 2018
My Weird School Fast Facts:Space, Humans,and a Farts by Dan Gutman is a strange book I picked up from the library. It does have issues and needs editing.
"So a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus."
It does have lots of facts and two kids playfully teasing each other and revealing more facts while they trade but occasionally there is name calling when someone doesn't know something.
When explaining the body, they discuss how someone could swallow a razor and would dissolve in the stomach from the acid....I don't think giving a 9 or 10 year old this knowledge brings any good from it! I see bad things...Maybe because I raised 4 boys and was around lots of little boy's and know their little minds and betting games.
The illustrations were cute.
"So a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus."
It does have lots of facts and two kids playfully teasing each other and revealing more facts while they trade but occasionally there is name calling when someone doesn't know something.
When explaining the body, they discuss how someone could swallow a razor and would dissolve in the stomach from the acid....I don't think giving a 9 or 10 year old this knowledge brings any good from it! I see bad things...Maybe because I raised 4 boys and was around lots of little boy's and know their little minds and betting games.
The illustrations were cute.
September 27, 2017
nice book!
April 4, 2022
Fun way to get boys to read about science. Gives lots of science facts.
October 21, 2022
Max and I enjoyed learning lots of science facts together. The book also had some fun and easy experiments we had fun trying!
December 8, 2023
This chapter book is filled with a lot of science facts. This series allows students to learn more about their interests.
October 18, 2025
My favorite part of this was the science of poop and gross things and AJ annoying the science teacher. The topics in this really didn’t connect.
January 22, 2019
My Weird School Fast Facts: Space, Humans, and Farts by Dan Gutman, 181 pages. Harper Collins, 2017, $6.
Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: G; Violence: G;
BUYING ADVISORY: EL- ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
A.J. and Andrea are back. With some help from their science teacher, Mr. Docker, they explore science, scientists, the solar system, and more. Always full of fast facts and fun jokes, A.J. and Andrea keep the conversation going from start to finish.
Like the other books in the series, this one is done as if it were a continuous conversation between A.J., Andrea, and their teacher. It is a quick read that scratches the surface of a lot of different scientific facts. Not to be mistaken as a science text, it is entertaining and can keep the attention of an eight year old. A good read or read aloud for second to fifth graders. A good book for a library that wants to expand fun and funny non-fiction for younger readers.
Reviewer: LMA, Bookin’ my way through life
https://kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/20...
Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: G; Violence: G;
BUYING ADVISORY: EL- ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
A.J. and Andrea are back. With some help from their science teacher, Mr. Docker, they explore science, scientists, the solar system, and more. Always full of fast facts and fun jokes, A.J. and Andrea keep the conversation going from start to finish.
Like the other books in the series, this one is done as if it were a continuous conversation between A.J., Andrea, and their teacher. It is a quick read that scratches the surface of a lot of different scientific facts. Not to be mistaken as a science text, it is entertaining and can keep the attention of an eight year old. A good read or read aloud for second to fifth graders. A good book for a library that wants to expand fun and funny non-fiction for younger readers.
Reviewer: LMA, Bookin’ my way through life
https://kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/20...
December 12, 2017
MY WEIRD SCHOOL FAST FACTS: SPACE, HUMANS, AND FARTS makes learning more interesting and fun. Using the weird-but-true theme is perfect to spark the intrigue in children and make them want to read this. It contains so many facts that everyone is bound to learn something new.
This book talks about the solar system, planets, matter, scientific equipment and machines, humans, and animals. There's even this one: when you sneeze, your mucus will move more than a hundred miles an hour. The additional weird, but factual element is brought in when they fully discuss pee, poop, and farts.
I really enjoyed the humor in this book that brings a twist to learning. There's also a chapter on famous scientists and weird facts about them. I even thought the bad science jokes were a great addition, like "What do you do with a dead chemist? Barium."
Final Verdict: Overall, I was very impressed with the amount of information packed into this one book. It's the perfect addition for ages six and up who are eager for some good, funny facts.
This book talks about the solar system, planets, matter, scientific equipment and machines, humans, and animals. There's even this one: when you sneeze, your mucus will move more than a hundred miles an hour. The additional weird, but factual element is brought in when they fully discuss pee, poop, and farts.
I really enjoyed the humor in this book that brings a twist to learning. There's also a chapter on famous scientists and weird facts about them. I even thought the bad science jokes were a great addition, like "What do you do with a dead chemist? Barium."
Final Verdict: Overall, I was very impressed with the amount of information packed into this one book. It's the perfect addition for ages six and up who are eager for some good, funny facts.
June 27, 2017
Great fun facts, humorous and good silly jokes.
October 29, 2017
Exellent book for kids
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