Dan Gutman’s Mr. Louie Is Screwy is a giggly Valentine’s Day story for 8 year olds about a boy who refuses to say the L word.<\/p>\n
It’s the twentieth My Weird School book. Mr. Louie is the lollipop man outside A.J.’s school. He wears tie-dye and sandals, and instead of a stop sign he holds up a guitar with STOP written on the back.<\/p>\n
He’s very big on peace and love. He tells the children that hate is a downer, man, and that he takes a love potion every morning. Then he gets put in charge of a huge Valentine’s festival, with the teachers as the musical acts (mostly they’re terrible).<\/p>\n
For A.J. this is a disaster. Love is for girls. And Andrea Young is the most annoying person in the whole world.<\/p>\n
So the week goes from bad to worse. Mrs. Yonkers’ new Love Machine reads his brain waves in front of the class, and it does NOT say what he wants it to say. Then, at the festival, Mr. Louie whispers that he’s spiked the water fountain with his love potion. Uh oh!<\/p>\n
There’s a secret in Miss Daisy’s class too. Who is her valentine? The girls think they know. The boys are horrified (for reasons that make perfect sense to A.J.).<\/p>\n
Half the fun is A.J. trying to wriggle out of things. His valentine cards for the class are wonderfully rude. When the boys dare him to throw his cake at Andrea, he eats half and throws the other half. Problem solved!<\/p>\n
Mr. Louie’s groovy slang is a joy to read aloud too. “Far-out!” “Gimme some skin!” Your reader will probably be saying “outta sight” by the end of the first chapter.<\/p>\n
There’s quite a lot of kissing in this one, which A.J. finds completely disgusting (your reader may well agree). There’s also a throwaway joke about why the teachers stopped saying “sit Indian style”, which some parents might want to talk through.<\/p>\n
Is there anything worse than everyone thinking you like the person you can’t stand? If your reader squirms at anything soppy, they’ll be squirming right alongside A.J. and loving every minute.<\/p>\n
If Miss Daisy and her bonbons are a favourite, Miss Daisy Is Crazy goes back to A.J.’s very first day in her class, when he tells everyone he hates school and she says she does too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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