Ms. Hall Is a Goofball!

My Weirdest School #12

by Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot (Illustrator)

With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!

In this twelfth book in the My Weirdest School series, there’s a new lunch lady at Ella Mentry! Ms. Hall is obsessed with healthy food, and she makes it her mission to get A.J. and the gang to eat more veggies. But they won’t take this sitting down.

Can Ms. Hall lure them over to the veggie side? Or will their resistance be a piece of cake?

Perfect for reluctant readers and all kids hungry for funny school stories, Dan Gutman’s hugely popular My Weird School chapter book series has something for everyone. Don’t miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang!

Genres: Childrens

112 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2018

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

[Azra's Book Corner · Rating 2 out of 5]

this book is wonderful and has a great rap inside on page 83

[Violet · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love the Weird School books, but this one let me down. It's great and really funny right up until the end, but the ending just ruined it. Ella Mentry School has a new lunch lady and she's on a mission to get all the kids eating veggies. A.J. and his friends form the Veggie Haters Club and the struggle is on!

A.J. finally tries a vegetable after Mr. Klutz delays lunch for hours, his sandwich "disappears" from his lunch bag and he's starving. Yeah, sometimes you have to get creative to get kids to do things and a good diet is important. It's not okay to get a kid to do something by denying them food.

[Selena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poor AJ! Ms Hall is his new nemesis in Ms. Hall is a Goofball! She is the new cafeteria lady and comes up with insane ways to get the students to eat their veggies.

My fourth graders read this and loved it. It can get repetative but overall has my students interested and willing to discuss the different parts of a story: Character, setting, theme, conflict and resolution.

[Anna Salvesen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked that these kids made a veggie haters club, but then they changed to the plant eaters club. When the boy who started the veggie haters club had a sugar snap pea, he liked it!

Ms. Hall is in charge of lunch because the old lunch lady moved back to France where she was from.

[Connor · Rating 5 out of 5]

11 Chapters - A new Dan Gutman fan is born! 12 y/o DS loved it! Elicited lots of laughter. Might have even sparked some interest in new vegetables. Already picked up 'Miss Daisy is Crazy!' to read next.

[JAcK_YeET · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is awesome! I loved it!

[Rachael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this one with my pickiest eater. If only I could convert HIM from the I Hate Veggies Club like Me Hall was able to do with the Ella Mentry School kids!

[Elina · Rating 4 out of 5]

4

[Pamela Leonardo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think the younger students will enjoy this book. It is funny and pretty fast paced. It includes many phrases that teachers can use to teach idioms. One of a series.

[Erion Cammon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I personally think that this is a good book. The reason I say this is because it's funny, intertersting, and it kind of let you learn something new such as new words. If you enjoy comedy books as much as I do this is a great book for you! You can also relate to a lot of things the main character says. And it's a fairly easy book to read.

[Nam · Rating 5 out of 5]

About halfway through the book, I was determined to rate it 2-3 stars. There is an awful lot of veggie hating in this book, but by the end, the kids all learned that veggies can be tasty. Even as a child, I could never understand the veggie haters; I was raised eating them. If you do end up with a veggie hater child, take note, there are ways to get children to eat them, and sometimes, you have to go to the extremes and do what Ms. Hall did for AJ. If they are hungry enough, kids will eat their veggies.

[Gail · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
AJ and friends are back for more of the same.

[Elisa Hoopes · Rating 3 out of 5]

its silly!

[Aminata Coote · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son and I enjoyed this book which was really funny. Ms. Hall is a creative genius when it comes to getting children to eat veggies.