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My Weird School
Ongoing series of children's novels
My Weird School
My Weird School is a series of humorous chapter books written by Dan Gutman and illustrated by Jim Paillot, first published in late June 2004. Further series include My Weird School Daze (2008-2011), My Weirder School (2011-2014), My Weirdest School (2015-2018), My Weirder-est School (2019-2022), and My Weird-tastic School (2023-2026). The series takes place in a school whose teachers display bizarre behaviors, with each title focusing on a specific teacher. Each book in the series has a rhyme in the title. The main character, A.J., is a boy who hates school. His rival is a girl named Andrea, who loves school and has a friend, Emily, that A.J. considers a "crybaby." Much of the humor is derived from the plot's unlikely situations and the teachers' personalities which are written to be "outlandish." Gutman was initially inspired to write the books after being exposed to the Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park and wanted to write something similar from a boy's point of view. Gutman says...
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