Mrs. Cooney Is Loony!

My Weird School #7

by Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot (Illustrator)

Mrs. Cooney, the school nurse, is a knockout -- and A.J. has a crush on her! But are her charms just a cover for her secret identity as an international spy? Will A.J.'s love for Mrs. Cooney win out over his love for the good old USA?

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Humor, Chapter Books, Audiobook, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction

116 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2005

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

[Janete on hiatus due health issues · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book and audio from Scribd. I'm improving my English in an easy and fun way!

Synopsis: "In this seventh hilarious book in Gutman’s My Weird School series, A.J. still hates school, but he’s developed a giant crush on the school nurse, Mrs. Cooney. Unfortunately, a couple of A.J.’s classmates also like Mrs. Cooney—plus, she’s married. And then things get even more confusing when A.J. begins to think his crush might be an international spy."

[Lady Tea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating: 5 / 5

Re-read in 2020 as part of my nostalgia-fest in times of boredom.

The quotes, the quotes, here come ze quotes!:

"Miss Daisy told us to be one our best behaviour while she called Mrs. Cooney on the intercom. So as soon as she turned her back to the class, me and Michael got up and shook our butts." -- wow, I didn't know that "be on your best behaviour" translates to "Shake Your Groove Thing".

"'That's a lie!' I lied." -- thanks for putting it bluntly what it's like when someone can't accept the truth.

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun quick read

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

We started reading the books in the My Weird School series by Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot together during storytime, but our oldest started reading ahead into the series on her own and our youngest seemed to lose interest. So now, I am just reading to catch up with our oldest.

This story focuses on the boys' fascination with the school nurse, Mrs. Cooney. Somehow the class becomes convinced that she is a spy. This is such a fun story and the kids have wild imaginations. I really enjoyed the part where A.J. remembers how to do the abdominal thrust maneuver from a video he had seen in Mrs. Cooney's office and ends up saving Andrea's life when she was choking on a bit of apple.

I think it's humorous that the children use all kinds of idioms, even though they really don't know what they mean. It makes me realize that there are likely a lot of phrases that my hubby and I use that our girls don't understand. And I think about how babies and young children are immersed in a language they don't understand, but they gradually pick it up as they get older and are exposed to it repetitively. But I digress...

We have enjoyed this series and will continue our march through the books. Our oldest reads them very quickly, so I have one more to read in order to catch up with her.

[Joey Oborne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book A.J and his friends think the school Nurse Mrs. Cooney is a spy and they got to her and say they are sick so they can see what she does and she does a lot of weird stuff, and they find out at the end that she is a spy!!!

[Jemily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another read aloud with the kids.
Of course, they loved it.
Haha.
3 reading counts points

[Christine Rains · Rating 4 out of 5]

A.J. and his friends are back, and he still hates school. But not Mrs. Cooney. Oh no. When he grows up, he wants to marry Mrs. Cooney! Except she's acting weird. Maybe she's a spy.

Fun and wacky book that I read with my six and a half year old son. I do love what the kids at Ella Mentry School think and how they're determined to prove Mrs. Cooney is a spy. I sometimes wonder what is going on in the adults' heads in this series!

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

2nd-5th Grade
This is the seventh edition of Dan Gutman’s My Weird School series of books that I think kids will love. I found myself laughing out loud when the kids from this school describe what they think is really happening in this school. In this edition, the boys in class all fall in love with the school nurse, Mrs. Cooney, but as they spend more time in the nurse’s office they begin to think she may be living a secret life, as a spy. The illustrations by Jim Paillot add to the humor with a modern cartoon feel. The large text and tempo of the writing will appeal to beginning, as well as more advanced readers. This book will have students looking forward to the next installment in the series.
Math/Language Arts/Science- Mrs. Clooney is able to trick A.J. into learning multiplication, when she knew he came to the nurse’s office to get out of that lesson that his teacher was teaching that day. Come up with ways of conveying a lesson while disguising that the lesson is going on, and see how long it takes for them to catch on. Or have the students come up with the ways that they would be able to be tricked into learning something by incorporating it into other activities

[Edward Creter · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Weird School Saga is getting more in touch with its odd side as it goes along. AJ is having a crush on his new school nurse, Mrs. Cooney, who is already married (hence the "Mrs.") yet his plans for romantic conquest thru nurse nuptials will not be denied! He still won't be kissed since, like most literary boys since Huck Finn, he finds the art of CPR (which fictional nurses have been depicted as being proficient at) distasteful at best. He needs a life--STAT!!! So controversial in its indirect view of most kids' fantasies of smokin' hot nurses and teachers, and, yeah, I had a few crushes on female teachers like most 12-year-olds so I can't fault AJ for crimes I had myself thought in my head. I think I need a doctor--and NOT someone smokin' hot! I'm over that!!! ....Right, guys???

[Carys · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was very silly A.J. has a crush on his school nurse but she is already married but mrs. cooney makes sick people balance things on their nose and then they figure out she is a spy.

[Cynthia · Rating 2 out of 5]

This Weird School book is about the school nurse. AJ has a crush on her and decides he wants to marry her some day. After another girl gets sick in class, AJ decides to play sick in order to get out of doing math and as another plus, spend time with the pretty nurse. However, the school nurse has him doing weird things to get rid of his headaches like balancing yard sticks on his nose while jumping on one foot. Pretty soon all the students get a sneaking suspicion that the school nurse may actually be a spy. I thought this story was cute but it wasn't really my favorite and I thought the ending felt very rushed.

[Courtney Umlauf · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent early chapter book series. Each book has a bit of humor and a relatable setting and characters that make them easy for students to engage with.

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[Lilly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I reley enjoyed this book infact i love it

[Gail · Rating 3 out of 5]

A.J. has a crush on the school nurse, wants to marry her when he grows up. That's his plan till he and the fellow students think that she is a spy.

[Helen · Rating 4 out of 5]

First love...ah. Poor A.J. and his friends, they're in love with an older woman, the school nurse. A fun book that displays A.J.'s unique sense of humor.

[Nam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed how Mrs. Cooney played along at the end.

[Honey · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is about the main character name A.ja love. M tars.cooney.
But Mrs.cooney is so sery they let sick kids to do sery things.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

It Was So Good!

[Marya · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is predictable- that is part of the appeal, after all, but I'm glad to see this twist on how our young narrator actually is crushing on this teacher. Too adorable.

[Jaden John · Rating 5 out of 5]

A.J is funny. Mrs.Cooney is Hilarious! Doctors are weird.

[Mika Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

We didn’t like this one as much as the others. Hopefully the next one gets us back on track.

[G · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[M Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

AJ and his friends find out that Miss Cooney is not a nurse she's actually a spy.

[Kaylen Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

A funny, cute book for readers starting chapter books. This reminded me of the bailey school kids series I used to read when I was a kid.

[CARI ORGERON · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute story

This was a really cute book. My 10 year old loved this book and the adventure it holds. We would buy another one of these stories for sure.

[Ilke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bazen diyorum bundan sonra sadece çocuk kitapları okuyacağım,
Her zaman her şeyin mümkün olduğu...

[Amy Seufert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shared reading - Hazel’s review - so funny

[Brook L. McCarrick]

Reads at 3:30

[Susan Forsgren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious, easy read.

[Randy Tramp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the realm this kid lives in.