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    My Weird School #14: Miss Holly Is Too Jolly!
    My Weird School #14: Miss Holly Is Too Jolly!
    My Weird School #14: Miss Holly Is Too Jolly!
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    My Weird School #14: Miss Holly Is Too Jolly!

    By Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot

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

    In this fourteenth book in the My Weird School series, A.J. and his friends are getting into the holiday spirit! Their Spanish teacher, Miss Holly, loves to celebrate holidays like Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah. But then she starts hanging mistletoe everywhere! Do you know what happens under there? Boys will have to kiss girls. And girls will have to kiss boys. Ugh! That’s so weird. Miss Holly is taking the holidays to the extreme!

    Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, 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!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061973345
    My Weird School #14: Miss Holly Is Too Jolly!
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    Dan Gutman

    Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series; the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world; and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 35 million copies. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife. You can visit him online at dangutman.com.

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      it is funny it teaches you words
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      Genre: Realistic FictionCritique: This was realistic fiction because, while it was informational about many different holidays, it was in the form of a story with a plot and the information was more just added in. Michael, Ryan, and Arlo are all kids that could be in a real classroom and simply be mischief makers.

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    My Weird School #14 - Dan Gutman

    1

    Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa

    Me llamo A.J. y odio la escuela.

    That’s My name is A.J. and I hate school in Spanish.

    Miss Holly translated it for me. She’s the Spanish teacher at Ella Mentry School.

    It’s not fair, I said as our class walked down the hall to the language lab. Why do we have to learn a whole nother language?

    ‘Nother’ isn’t a word, Arlo, said Andrea Young. "You can’t even speak English correctly."

    Andrea is this girl in my class with curly brown hair who thinks she knows everything. She calls me by my real name because she knows I hate it.

    "‘Nother’ is too a word," I told her.

    Is not.

    Is too.

    We went back and forth like that for a while. Andrea said she looked up nother in the dictionary once, and it wasn’t there. She’s probably the only kid in the world who keeps a dictionary on her desk so she can look up words and show everybody how smart she is.

    "‘Another’ is a word, Andrea said, but not ‘nother.’"

    Oh yeah? I said. If ‘nother’ isn’t a word, then why did you just say it?

    Nah-nah-nah boo-boo on her.

    Andrea was wearing this dumb hat that she made all by herself in her knitting class. Andrea takes classes in everything. She probably even takes a class in how to be annoying, because that’s the one thing she’s good at.

    After walking a million hundred miles, we finally got to the language lab. What a dumb name. Labs are supposed to have test tubes and mad scientists and hunch-backed guys named Igor who limp. Our language lab is just a plain old room where we learn Spanish. What’s up with that?

    Isn’t learning Spanish fun? Andrea said to her crybaby friend Emily. I hope Miss Holly teaches us—

    She didn’t get the chance to finish her sentence because at that very second Miss Holly danced in the door.

    Miss Holly was playing a guitar and she had a big basket of fruit on her head. She was singing some crazy song and spinning around and stamping her feet. Her red dress had pictures of reindeer on the back. On the front were blinking lights and the words Happy Holidays!

    When she finished the song, Miss Holly yelled, Olay! which is the name of the stuff my mom smears on her face at night.

    ¡Feliz Navidad! Miss Holly said. "Happy Hanukkah! Kwanzaa Yenu Iwe Na Heri!"

    What the heck does that mean? I asked.

    "That means Merry Christmas, Happy

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