Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series; the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 2 million copies around the world; and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 37 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.
Jim Paillot lives in Arizona (another weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children. Isn’t that weird? You can visit him on his weird website at jimpaillot.com.
My Weird School #21: Ms. Krup Cracks Me Up!
By Dan Gutman
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Copyright ©2008 Dan Gutman
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780061346057
Chapter One
Field Trips Are Boring
My name is A.J. and I hate school.
It was Monday—the worst day of the week. We were on our way to lunch in the vomitorium at Ella Mentry School. My friend Ryan Dole was the line leader. I was the door holder. All the guys were talking about the big football game that was on TV over the weekend. All the girls were gabbing about some girly stuff, like what color shoes they have.
"Enough chitchat!" said our teacher, Mrs. Daisy.
Mrs. Daisy used to be Miss Daisy, but she went off and got married to our reading specialist, Mr. Macky. So now we call her Mrs. Daisy.
"I just got some great news!" she told us. "Next week our class is going on a field trip!"
"Yay!" yelled all the girls.
"Boo!" yelled all the boys.
Ugh! I remember the last time we went on a field trip. It was totally lame. Do you know why? We went on a field trip . . . to a field! How lame is that? We had to look at disgusting bugs. Our science teacher, Mr. Docker, even ate one of them. But then, Mr. Docker is off his rocker.
We should go on a field trip to an amusement park or a video arcade. That would be cool.
"I love field trips!" said this annoying girl with curly brown hair named Andrea, who loves everythingteachers love.
"Me too!" said her crybaby friend, Emily. "Where are we going?"
"We're going to visit a natural history museum!" Mrs. Daisy said, all excited.
What?! A natural history museum?
Natural stuff is boring.
History is boring.
And nothing's more boring than a museum.
So a natural history museum is sure to be the most boring place in the history of the world!
Now you know why I hate school.
Continues...
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