Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!

My Weird School Daze #12

by Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot (Illustrator)

With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! Oh no! In this twelfth book in the My Weird School Daze series, kids are getting too unhealthy, so Ella Mentry School has hired a health teacher to help the kids eat right and exercise. Ms. Leakey is a real health nut. She makes a punching bag filled with junk food! She designs a robot that smokes and drinks! She opens up a fast food restaurant that sells broccoli burgers! She puts sunscreen on her car! Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutman's hugely popular My Weird School series has something for everyone. Don't miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang.

Genres: Childrens, Humor, Fiction

102 pages, Paperback

First published February 2, 2011

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

[Edgar Villasenor · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book is about a new teacher entered the school, she is a health teacher. She changed the lunch to disgusting burgers, and she took out the soda machine. And when a kid eats a junk food, she quickly catches it, and throws it. So this 2nd graders went to the garbage to find any junk food. And the 2nd graders saw the health teacher eating junk food. I liked this book because it has a lot of funny scenes. I recommend this book to the 3rd graders because it easy and funny.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

I happen to like dextrose, soy lecithin, and sugar.

[Ariel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite good overall

I like this book.It is pizza.Ms. Leakey really IS Freaky !!
I like pizza.Is the author a gutman?
His name is weird.

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was funny

[Will L · Rating 5 out of 5]

Will Lutz



Ms Leakey is Freaky By Dan Gutman is a book about how The school hires a health teacher to make sure they exercise and eat healthy. So one day AJ is sitting at lunch eating then he pulls out a twinkie and is about to eat it then Ms. Leakey jumps out and tells him not to eat it while his friends whisper eat it eat it. So he takes a bite then Ms leakey takes the rest of the twinkie out of his and forces his mouth open to poll the rest of the Twinkie out. Then Ms. Leakey tells everyone to throw their junk food away. So she grabs the trash once it is full and tells everyone to line up and they go outside. To the dumpster she threw all the junk food away. And says this is where junk food belongs. Then Ms Leakey interrupts their math class and makes them start doing jumping jacks. Later in the day Ms Leakey calls AJ down to her office and says that everybody looks up to him so he is going to be her project for this year to make healthier. Then AJ asks why there is a punching bag in her office. She says it is for kids to get their anger out. Do you want to try so he does and then candy falls out of the punching bag. Then she says candy should be punched. The next day he goes to the store with his mom because she said he could get a treat and because he hadn't had a treat in a while he went. And when he got his treat Ms leakeys are came out of the box and told him to put it back. That same night he was in bed and wanted candy so he got a Hershey's from his closet and went to his bed to eat it and then Ms Leakey came out from under his bed and took it and jumped out the window. The next day at school they all go to the dumpster to get candy. But when they open it Ms leakey is in there eating candy. So they go to tell the principal and he fires her. This book connects to this month's theme choice because I chose it.. I give this book a 5/5 because it was short, kept my attention and was funny. I recommend this book to people who like funny books.

[Diane Baranich · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is fun to read and entertaining. The story about the health teacher, Ms. Leakey, keeps you wanting to figure out what her agenda is really all about. My kids love Dan Gutman books. His books keeps my kids wanting to read more.

[Tyler · Rating 5 out of 5]

The weirdness never stops! Oh no! Kids are getting too unhealthy, so Ella Mentry School has hired a health teacher to help the kids eat right and exercise. Ms. Leakey is a real health nut. She makes a punching bag filled with junk food! She designs a robot that smokes and drinks!

[Elina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very funny book. And at the end the health teacher Ms leaky eats the junk she tells students to stop but she does not stop. But anyway on to the story. So the students at Ella's Mentry are getting unhealthy they need a heath teacher but that teach is a junk teacher. 😆

[Levi Melehes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book ever

It was amazing I love this book it is the best book I had in a long time!!!!!!!
I am just saying that people should be more awesome about these

[Jimmylandiaball · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arm wrestle g teachers, junk food junkie health teacher.

[Advik Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Illnevertellyou]

BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHH JUST LETME READ THIS BOOK U ANOYING ME IDIOT!

[Sophie Halkides · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ms. Leakey actually was eating junk food the hole time, when she said she was going to exercise she went to the dumpster and ate junk food

[Shankar B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked when A.J. punched the punching bag.

[Katelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny 😊

[Daniel]

Im feeling freaky for Ms Leaky W aura ambout to freak 0ut all over and freak out so much I rocket to freaky town and get even freakier.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never Disappoints

This is another great book by Dan Gutman. The kids couldn't put it down! We can't wait to read the next one.

[Kc · Rating 5 out of 5]

81 pages not 102

[Parisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

معلم بهداشت جدید همه هله هوله بچه ها رو دور میندازه، همه رو به حذف قند تشویق و مجبور میکنه
و در آخر بچه ها اون رو در سطل زباله هله هوله ها پیدا میکنن و میفهمن معتاد به شیرینیه

[Amy Robertson]

I really like the idea of moving to Antarctica to eat Twinkies with the Penguins.

[Fae · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not like this.

[Suebee · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a school librarian in NJ, I was thrilled when Dan Gutman was able to visit our school and engage with the kids during an author visit assembly.

His books were and are so perennially popular that I have them all in bins in the "popular series section" of the school library.

He just has a knack for engaging a kid. Kids who won't read or don't like reading will be immediately drawn in - who WOULDN'T want to learn more about the health teacher Ms. Leakey, who starts out the school assembly with a "veggie vs junk food" fight? Teachers dressed up as candy, Coke, and a donut, battle it out with carrots and fruit, using wooden swords.

[Christine Rains · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ella Mentry School has a new health teacher, and she's out to make A.J. an example to other students by "helping" him eat healthy.

My six-and-a-half-year-old son and I have been reading through this series together. He laughs a lot and really likes hearing about A.J.'s adventures. So far, this is the one I like least. Ms. Leakey was a little too freaky in her harassment of students, especially of A.J.

[Jessie Bear · Rating 4 out of 5]

An eccentric health teacher descends upon Ella Mentry School to teach healthy eating habits, by force if necessary. This humorous tale uses a lot of exaggerated superlative language like, “the most amazing thing in the history of the world,” which is repeated about a dozen times throughout the course of the book. The adult characters do some weird stuff, such as build a robot which drinks beer in class, but this is offset by one of the characters wondering out loud if these things are really appropriate for children. There are also a lot of references to chemical food products such as sodium acid pyrophosphate, but it is made clear that these are big confusing words that make little sense. Other teachers from the “My Weird School Daze” series appear in this book, helping tie in this book with the rest of the series in a manner which doesn’t feel forced. The chapter where the health teacher opens her own restaurant could have easily been edited out of the narrative, but otherwise this is a lighthearted tale with a good moral about healthy eating while not going “overboard.” The digital cartoon illustrations tie in well with the comical tone and are often exaggerated in a similar nature as the text. The scattered illustrations help break up the text without making it look too young for its audience, and the length of 102 pages adds a sense of achievement to completing this transitional chapter book. Recommended for children ages seven to eight.

[Kcrosland · Rating 4 out of 5]

I understand that eating healthy is good for you, but Ms. Leakey went over board. Like taking the twinkie out of AJ's mouth, and jumping from under his bed to take away his candy bar. My parents allows me to snack healthy like eating celery sticks with ranch dressing, eating fruit snacks and fruits but not all of my snacks are healthy. I sometimes eat candy bars and cup cakes but not a whole lot. In all schools their should be healthier eating but not like Ms. Leakey was doing. Just like Andrea was saying in the assembly when the vegetables was fighting the junk food with swords and stabbing each other that was to much. If they wanted kids to eat healthy they should have sent a letter home to the students parents and asked them to try and send healthy lunches to school with their kids. And don't forget to drink more water, my mom always have me drink water when I eat my dinner I only drink jucies on the weekends. Ms. Leakey was Freaky why would she tell the students one thing and do something else, it was ment for her to get caught in the dumpster eating all of that junk food and get fired by Mr. Klutz. Just like they say you are what you eat, try to eat healthy.

[Peyton]

I thought that ms. leaky IS freaky. She made everyone throw away their candy and other junk food into a dumpster where ms. leaky is eating everything they through away. She is nuts!!! And then she opens a fast food resturant where kids go and eat broccali burgers, potato fries, and other wacky foods. And she is also follwing A.j! She follows him to his house shere she hides under his bed, she follows him to the store so he can't buy candy, and other places!!!!!!!!! A.j thinks sheis totally crazy!!!!! But one day at school A.j and his friends find out that she is junk food junkie and so mr. kluts fires her. Can anybody else stop her?

[Brandy Corcoran · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the My Weird School series by Dan Gutman. I just feel that some of the material becomes unnecessary and at times it is inappropriate. For example in this read, the use of beer and cigarettes from the robot it too much. Why not use pop and candy? Why do we use the term stupid, when it's not used properly in today's society. I love the humor in this series, but for young readers that are advanced readers it becomes too much. My child is in the second grade reading on a 4th grade level and words like this bother me as a parent and would keep me from reading it in my classroom.

[Shelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dan Gutman understands young reader’s humor and has created a fantastic book formula to draw in even the most reluctant of readers. The My Weird School series is perfect for students to practice their reading skills with its repetitive yet hysterical narrative and story lines. But don’t mention that part to your kiddos, they might run away in fear they could learn something. A must have collection for any grade school library or classroom!

[Tyler Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kids getting to unhealthy from eating candy and junk.So Ella Mentry School hired a health teacher to help kids eat right and exercise.Ms.Leakey is a real health nut.She made a punching bag out of junk.This book is the funniest and freakiest book I ever read in my in tire life.Why because that always happened to me I had to eat healthy and drink water to lose weight.But ever time I drink water I don't lose weight.