My Weird School #11: Mrs. Kormel Is Not Normal!

I am all for books that are cool enough for young boys to read on their own - heck - we have every Capt. Underpants book in creation... but I was a little turned off by the text in this book. In the first few chapters alone, there were lots of "I hate her" and "She is stupid", "She is dumb", etc, etc. I'm not a total prude about these words - but the reading level of this book strikes me as "early 2nd grade"- meaning that this book is most likely to be read by 1st and 2nd graders. The negativity seemed a bit excessive to me. Also - it's one thing to think your school is weird, but the main character AJ goes into some detail about why he HATES school, talks about how mean the fifth graders are, and accuses another child of being a "brown-noser". (Try explaining brown-nosing to your 7 year old.) I just felt that it was generally a bit negative for the 1st and 2nd graders - most of whom still really like school, or you at least WANT them to like school at that age. Let's not tarnish their idealism already! Even Capt. Underpants is pretty upbeat and optimistic throughout its potty humor. I would not necessarily have minded all the "hate", "stupid", and "dumb" comments had my son been a few years older, at least in 3rd or 4th grade - but really, the reading level is not that high, and by age 9 or 10,there are much better books for them to be reading. Otherwise, I agree with the other reviewers that the book is a quick read, and humorous .. but not necessarily the kind of jaded humor that I felt like a 1st grader needed to read (nor did he really enjoy that type of humor).

This is my second grade son's favorite book in the My Weird School series. Also, I admit, the whole family laughed out loud as we read it. I could do without the "dumbhead" and hating school message generally, but AJ reminds me a lot of my son, and he read the books willingly, so it's a win at our house.

Great book for kids. I have read this series with all of my kids when they were in about 1st - 3rd grade.

Great book but I think its to short. I wish Dan Gutman made a series just like this but at a more higher level of reading.

This is one of many series' of books that my grandson enjoys.

I hate this book the children are very rude to each other and their parents. The main character hates school and calls people dumb sets a bad example for kids

My girls love this series.

Hilarious!!!! My grandson and I have read "almost" all of the books written by Dan Gutman.

It explained a lot that I've read in the other books. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! :-)

I was drawn by the title which I thought my grandson would love and he did!He thought the book was excellent.

I recommended this book to my friend. Lots of my friends have read this because I told them about it. Most of my class have read it now. Good for girls and boys.

I downloaded this story for my step daughter who thoroughly enjoyed Mrs Kormel's antics and read it from start to finish in just over an hour.

This book was read by my 10 year old who really enjoyed the story. He related to the hero's dislike of Monday's classes and spelling tests and how anything is more fun. :) ;)