Dan Gutman’s Miss Lazar Is Bizarre is a very silly school story for 8 year olds about a caretaker who might just be a real superhero.<\/p>\n
Book nine in the My Weird School series opens with a bathroom emergency. A.J. only asks to go to the toilet because he’s feeling a bit antsy. Then he flushes, and the water just keeps on rising. Before long it’s pouring out under the door!<\/p>\n
Cue Miss Lazar, the school custodian, roaring down the corridor on a motorised scooter with a plunger in her hand. She calls herself Super Custodian. She also LOVES mess (if kids never made any, she says, she wouldn’t have a job).<\/p>\n
Then A.J. lobs Emily’s glow-in-the-dark tennis ball up onto the school roof. Miss Lazar simply climbs up the brick wall to fetch it. Who needs a ladder?<\/p>\n
So of course the boys decide she’s a superhero. She’s got a uniform with letters on it. She must have a secret identity. And there’s a door in her basement room with a sign saying SECRET ROOM. They have to find out what’s behind it, don’t they?<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Mr. Klutz, the bald principal, isn’t enjoying all the cheering. Andrea is sure he’s feeling left out. So the kids cook up an “emergency” to give him a turn at being the hero. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n
A.J. talks to you the whole way through like you’re his mate in the playground. He promises to tell you a secret and then says he can’t. He can’t hear Miss Lazar say “Duty calls!” without giggling either (it sounds like doody, obviously).<\/p>\n
There’s a LOT of toilet humour in this one. If your reader thinks anything to do with the loo is the funniest thing in the world, they’ll probably love it.<\/p>\n
A.J. and Andrea bicker as much as ever and there’s plenty of “dumbhead” flying about. It’s all super cartoonish. (Climbing up the outside of a school is very much a cartoon thing too, which might be worth saying out loud if you’ve got a climber at home!)<\/p>\n
If they enjoy the gang playing detective on a grown-up, Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy is a great one to try. The new librarian keeps turning up as George Washington or Neil Armstrong, and the kids are determined to prove it’s really her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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