Dr. Snow Has Got to Go! (My Weirder-est School #1) by Dan Gutman
Published by HarperCollins on January 8th 2019
ISBN: 0062691023
Pages: 112
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This is book 1 of in a series of 9. Ella Mentry School is the setting for the series. A.J. is the narrator of this book. Dr. Snow is a scientist who has come to the school to help teach the kids about STEM and science fair projects.

The story is written for 3rd graders and up. I read it with my soon to be 7th-grade grandson in a day. He loved it for the figurative language that everywhere in the text. “the all-Porpose”  room = the all-purpose room, my teacher passed out…passed out pencils, the vomitorium = cafetorium, there was electricity in the air… Well not really…we would all get electrocuted.

The science fair choices beyond volcanoes, egg drop from the school roof, Galileo in the library (librarian), and a leaf blower to blow out birthday candles.

I’m planning on using this series to help teach the difference between connotative and denotative  meanings of words in middle school.

 

Reviewed by Jeri Fitzpatrick, GNG Middle School, Gray