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Dan Gutman

Autor(a) de The Homework Machine

211+ Works 42,444 Membros 406 Críticas 4 Favorited

About the Author

Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He received a degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a mostrar mais full-time writer. He wrote several non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, My Weird School series, My Weird School Daze series, My Weirder School series, and The Genius Files series. In 2014 his title, Texas with Love, which was the fourth book in the Genius Files Series, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Dan Gutman

The Homework Machine (2006) 2,402 exemplares
Miss Daisy Is Crazy! (2004) 1,895 exemplares
Mr. Klutz Is Nuts! (2004) 1,197 exemplares
Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy! (2004) 1,074 exemplares
The Kid Who Ran For President (1999) 1,060 exemplares
Honus & Me (1998) 965 exemplares
The Million Dollar Shot (1997) 912 exemplares
Babe & Me (2000) 902 exemplares
Shoeless Joe & Me (2001) 887 exemplares
Return of the Homework Machine (2010) 807 exemplares
Jackie & Me (1999) 792 exemplares
Miss Child Has Gone Wild! (2011) 689 exemplares
Miss Holly Is Too Jolly! (2006) 684 exemplares
Ms. Hannah Is Bananas! (2004) 624 exemplares
Mayor Hubble Is in Trouble! (2012) 592 exemplares
Mr. Sunny Is Funny! (2008) 580 exemplares
Mrs. Patty Is Batty! (2006) 559 exemplares
The Kid Who Became President (1999) 545 exemplares
Mrs. Dole Is Out of Control! (2008) 537 exemplares
Miss Mary Is Scary! (2010) 535 exemplares
Miss Small Is off the Wall! (2005) 509 exemplares
Mr. Harrison Is Embarrassin'! (2011) 495 exemplares
Mr. Macky Is Wacky! (2006) 481 exemplares
Coach Hyatt Is A Riot! (2008) 472 exemplares
Satch & Me (2006) 442 exemplares
Officer Spence Makes No Sense! (2009) 432 exemplares
Dr. Carbles Is Losing His Marbles! (2007) 378 exemplares
Mr. Hynde Is Out of His Mind! (2005) 377 exemplares
Mr. Louie Is Screwy! (2007) 366 exemplares
Ms. LaGrange Is Strange! (2005) 354 exemplares
Mickey & Me (2003) 353 exemplares
The Get Rich Quick Club (2004) 348 exemplares
Mrs. Cooney Is Loony! (2005) 344 exemplares
Ms. Krup Cracks Me Up! (2008) 335 exemplares
Mrs. Meyer Is on Fire! (2016) 334 exemplares
Mrs. Yonkers Is Bonkers! (2007) 332 exemplares
Mr. Docker Is Off His Rocker! (2006) 318 exemplares
Dr. Brad Has Gone Mad! (2009) 309 exemplares
Ms. Cuddy Is Nutty! (2015) 307 exemplares
Ms. Coco Is Loco! (2007) 285 exemplares
Mr. Tony Is Full of Baloney! (2010) 282 exemplares
Miss Lazar Is Bizarre! (2005) 281 exemplares
Miss Laney Is Zany! (2010) 280 exemplares
Ms. Leakey Is Freaky! (2011) 275 exemplares
Mrs. Jafee Is Daffy! (2009) 275 exemplares
Mrs. Lizzy Is Dizzy! (2010) 274 exemplares
Miss Suki Is Kooky! (2007) 272 exemplares
Mr. Cooper Is Super! (2015) 271 exemplares
Mrs. Kormel Is Not Normal! (2006) 270 exemplares
The Million Dollar Kick (2001) 239 exemplares
Miss Brown Is Upside Down! (2015) 227 exemplares
Jim & Me (2008) 213 exemplares
The Million Dollar Strike (2004) 205 exemplares
Nightmare at the Book Fair (2008) 198 exemplares
Ms. Todd Is Odd! (2006) 193 exemplares
Abner & Me (2005) 189 exemplares
They Came From Center Field (1995) 187 exemplares
Miss Daisy Is Still Crazy! (2016) 171 exemplares
Mr. Nick Is a Lunatic! (2016) 164 exemplares
The Christmas Genie (2009) 162 exemplares
Getting Air (2007) 159 exemplares
Casey Back at Bat (2007) 152 exemplares
Roberto & Me (2010) 145 exemplares
Ms. Joni Is a Phony! (2017) 144 exemplares
Miss Tracy Is Spacey! (2017) 142 exemplares
The Million Dollar Putt (2006) 137 exemplares
Mrs. Master Is a Disaster! (2017) 124 exemplares
Mr. Will Needs to Chill! (2018) 109 exemplares
Ray & Me (2009) 101 exemplares
The Million Dollar Goal (2003) 94 exemplares
Recycle This Book (2009) 86 exemplares
Ted & Me (2012) 86 exemplares
Miss Newman isn't human! (2018) 73 exemplares
Ms. Hall Is a Goofball! (2018) 70 exemplares
The Talent Show (2010) 66 exemplares
Rappy the Raptor (2015) 60 exemplares
My Weird School 21-Book Box Set (2010) 57 exemplares
Virtually Perfect (1998) 50 exemplares
The Shortstop Who Knew Too Much (1997) 46 exemplares
Johnny Hangtime (2000) 43 exemplares
Houdini and Me (2021) 42 exemplares
Willie & Me (2015) 41 exemplares
The Way Baseball Works (1996) 33 exemplares
Baseball's Greatest Games (1994) 32 exemplares
Baseball Babylon (1992) 24 exemplares
World Series Classics (1973) 21 exemplares
The Catcher Who Shocked the World (1997) 13 exemplares
The Green Monster in Left Field (1997) 8 exemplares
Rappy the Raptor goes to school (2016) 8 exemplares
The Secret Life of Dr. Demented (2001) 7 exemplares
The Winning Season [2004 film] (2005) — Writer — 3 exemplares
The Dan Gutman Collection (2016) 2 exemplares
Daring to Dream 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Guys Write for Guys Read (2005) — Contribuidor — 764 exemplares
Half-Minute Horrors (2009) — Contribuidor — 277 exemplares
Guys Read: The Sports Pages (2012) — Contribuidor — 194 exemplares

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First sentence: Most teachers don't really want you to know anything about the Beatles! They want you to know about Abraham Lincoln and educational stuff like that.

Premise/plot: This is a "nonfiction" book. The framework is fiction, a fictional brother and sister duo battle it out to see who knows more about the Beatles. The information they're sharing is factual and nonfiction.

The book talks about the band, The Beatles. It talks about the four members of the band, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Each Beatle gets his own personal biographical chapter. Other chapters talk more about the band as a whole--chronicling the timeline of the band.

My thoughts: Did I learn anything new? No. Is that surprising? Not really if you KNOW me. I liked this one. I did. I was slightly annoyed by the fictional framework. However, I do appreciate that this one focused on the band AND the individuals within the band. I do think the Beatles are best introduced by their music. I know this is impossible to do in a book. Or perhaps not impossible, challenging enough, but the best way to get to know the Beatles is by....listening to the Beatles. Without that immediate connection to the music itself, I'm not sure how memorable or impactful or interesting or entertaining the book is.
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BooksInMirror | 2 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
My book club kids liked this. It deals in wish fulfillment and easy answers instead of reality, so it's a light, fun read (despite one very heavy topic, which I'll get into later). You don't need to be a big baseball fan to follow these books, so that's a plus. We had one of our best book club activities ever, in which I stacked a bunch of paper cups and let the kids throw beanbags at them to try to knock them down. Can you throw hard with accuracy like Satchel Paige? Most could not, but it was fun throwing stuff and knocking stuff down in the library.

Now, to get real with you, I can't give this more than two stars because I cringed a few times at the way racism is handled in this book. At one point Stosh is at a Negro League game, notices that the crowd is mostly black and then think this puts him in the "minority group" for once. And then he says something to the effect of now he knows how black people feel.

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LibrarianDest | 7 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
I haven't actually read any books in this "Baseball Card Adventure" series, but they seem popular. I wonder if a teacher would count this as historical fiction despite the fact that it's based on magical time travel. Maybe?
 
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Obras
211
Also by
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Membros
42,444
Popularidade
#403
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
406
ISBN
2,144
Línguas
9
Marcado como favorito
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