My Weird School #16

My Weird School #16: Miss Coco is Loco by Dan Gutman                     Audio Book:  .75 hour   Hardback Book:  112 pages                

Fun read.   A. J. and his classmate, Andrea, have been selected to be in the Gifted and Talented program at their school.    A.J. would rather NOT be in it, because he doesn’t want his friends razzing him about being smart or special, plus, he can barely stand, Andrea, who is reading the entire encyclopedia from A-Z so she will learn everything in the world there is to know.    Ms. Coco who runs the Gifted and Talented Program comes in to the classroom one day speaking in rhyme,  that is how she let them know she was assigning them poetry homework.    A.J. is bummed out because guys don’t read poetry that is for girls he says.   Turns out he tries to gross Ms. Coco out with putting wods and phrases like fart and armpit, nose picking, etc.    But instea of getting kicked out of class, Ms. Coco thinks he is very creative and is expressing himself in the poem.   The next time they meet she comes in singing, “Feelings,”  and telling A.J. how much she loves his poetry and how she wants him to really put his feelings into his next poem.  This is when A.J. decided that Ms. Coco is loco not just weird as he had first thought.      It turned out to be a timely read because it starts in March and goes through April – National Poetry Month.   The entire school is challenged to write 1,000 poems.    Some of A.J.’s friends are having issues completing a poem and ask A.J. for help.   Before long A.J. is selling his poems for the other guys’ lunch money.   Will he be found out or will the guys beat the girls in the poetry slam?   Gotta read it to find out, but, it is a fun read and little did I know when I requested it by the title Miss Coco is Loc, that it is actually part of a series.  Now I have to find out what led up to this and where will the go from here?    Fun premise.   I recommend it for young readers.