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The Leprechaun Is Finally Gone!,
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Bathroom: To make your friends laugh, stick your face in their face and say this word. See also Underwear.
Boring: What just about everything is, except for skateboarding, peewee football, trick biking, video games, and cool stuff like that.
But it won’t be easy: The final sentence of every My Weird School book.
Candy: The greatest thing in the history of the world.
Clog dancing: A dance that plumbers do.
Dictionary: A big fat book with a lot of words in it, and it’s in alphabetical order. Andrea keeps one on her desk at all times so she can look up words and make sure she’s smarter than everybody else.
Door holder: Somebody whose job it is to hold the door open. So it has the perfect name.
Dumbhead: The worst curse word in the world.
Ella Mentry: The old lady who lives nearby and taught at the school for many years. After she retired, the school was named “Ella Mentry School.”
Fiction: What you get when you rub two things together. Oh, wait a minute. That’s friction. Never mind.
Finger painting: When you paint your fingers. What a dumb thing to do.
Fizz Ed: The only good thing about school, because it’s what you would be doing if you didn’t have to go there in the first place.
Forehead: Grown-ups rub theirs when they’re thinking. When you get old, your brain doesn’t work as well anymore so you have to rub your forehead to get it going again.
Grown-ups: Old people. They invented school as a way to avoid paying for babysitters.
Hips: Where grown-ups put their hands when they’re mad. Nobody knows why.
Hmmm: What grown-ups say instead of “er” or “um” or “uh” when they don’t know what to say.
Hold your tongue: Something grown-ups are always telling you to do. But it’s slimy and gross.
I’ll be your best friend: All-purpose promise used to get anything from anyone.
Jack: The first extreme athlete. He was some guy who would jump over a candlestick for no reason.
Jill: Friend of Jack.
Kinetic sculpture: Sculpture that comes from Connecticut.
Last straw, the: Something grown-ups always say to A.J., even though he didn’t take any straws and there are plenty of straws left.
Line leader: Kid who gets the honor of walking at the head of the class when it moves from room to room.
Lumpy: Humpty Dumpty’s actual first name.
Math: Stuff kids have to learn even though there are calculators that can do it for you.
Mature: A fancy way to say boring.
Million hundred: A.J.’s way of saying any large number.
Motto: What’s a motto? I don’t know. What’s a motto with you?
Nah-nah-nah boo-boo: What you say after you won and somebody else lost.
Nonfiction: Books that don’t have any fiction in them, just like nonfat milk doesn’t have fat in it and nonsense doesn’t have sense in it.
O: Letter you put in front of your name on Saint Patrick’s Day so you sound Irish.
Paper: Stuff that all My Weird School books are printed on. Except the ebook and audio versions.
Paillot, Jim: Some guy who draws pictures.
Pudding: What the proof is in.
Reading and writing: Boring stuff that has no place in schools.
Recess: The best time of the day.
Skateboarding: One of A.J.’s favorite sports. The first picture in the first My Weird School book shows A.J. skateboarding.
Teachers’ lounge: A secret place where teachers have parties all day long. They dance around, eat cake, get massages, and think up new ways to punish kids. Oh, and they have a hot tub in there.
The: A word found on just about every page of every book in the history of the world. Nobody knows why.
TV: Valuable educational tool that gives us kids important information, like which breakfast cereal tastes best and which shampoo leaves your hair the shiniest.
Underwear: To make your friends laugh, stick your face in their face and say this word. See also Bathroom.
Veterinarian: What Andrea wants to be when she grows up, even though animals can’t be doctors.
Vomitorium: The lunchroom. It used to be called the “cafetorium” until some first grader threw up in there.
Weather: What grown-ups talk about all the time, usually while drinking coffee. Nobody knows why.
Whistling: What you do when you want to pretend you didn’t do anything wrong, even though everybody knows you did that thing.
X-rays: Miss Small got these after she fell out of a tree and broke her leg.
You can’t come to my birthday party: Just about the meanest thing you can say to somebody.
Zamboni: Used at hockey games. It has nothing to do with My Weird School, but it’s a funny word that starts with a Z.
FUN GAMES AND WEIRD WORD PUZZLES
LUCK OF THE IRISH
Directions: Help Andrea navigate this maze to reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
SPOT THE DIFFERENCES
Directions: These two covers are identical. Well, almost. There are ten differences. Can you spot them all?
SAINT PATTY’S CROSSWORD
Directions: Use the clues below to fill in this crossword puzzle. (Hint: All of the answers are mentioned in this book!)
Across:
5. _____________ are known for wearing green and playing pranks on people.
6. A type of Irish dancing performed on Saint Patrick’s Day.
7. The number of leaves a lucky clover has.
9. The country where Saint Patrick was born.
10. This is traditionally worn by the Scottish and often mistaken for a skirt.
Down:
1. What people think the Irish eat a lot of on Saint Patrick’s Day.
2. A pot of this can be found at the end of a rainbow.
3. A three-leaf clover is also known as this.
4. Saint Patrick’s Day is always on March ___.
8. Ireland’s national symbol is this musical instrument.
HIDDEN WORD HUNT
Directions: Can you find all ten Saint Patrick’s Day words hidden in this messy jumble of letters?
ANSWER KEY
LUCK OF THE IRISH
SPOT THE DIFFERENCES
SAINT PATTY’S CROSSWORD
HIDDEN WORD HUNT
THE WORLD OF DAN GUTMAN CHECKLIST
About the Author and Illustrator
Courtesy of Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot
DAN GUTMAN has written many weird books for kids. He lives with his weird wife in New York (a very weird place). You can visit him on his weird website at www.dangutman.com.
JIM PAILLOT lives in Arizona (another weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children. Isn’t that weird? You can visit him on his weird website at www.jimpaillot.com.
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Copyright
Special thanks to fans who helped teach me about Saint Patrick’s Day: Laura Meeker Korch, Kristina Krengel, Daniel Reilly, Rachael Alford, Colleen McAteer Baumgardner, Jessica Beasley, Susie Biondo, Gina D’Angelo Williams, Emily Ebner, Alysa Gayle, Joy Seres-Kilmurray, Erika Maria, Sara Marshall, Kathleen Gilbert Nangle, Aisling O’Donovan, Jenny O’Sullivan, Sinead Queenborg McDonnell Borgersen, Katie Carpenter Smith, Barbara Sorensen Smole, Sara Van Den Bosch, Julie Bastean Yepsen, Allison Kamen, Tracy Hengst, Debi Krueger Hart, Carlie Weaver, Sonya Williams, Sunny Turner, Katie Feighery Hunnes, Stacy Davidson Minicucci, Colleen Neff, Sangita Biniwale Pradhan, Julie Bradford, Allen Thurlow, Diane Donnelly Sperfslage.
MY WEIRD SCHOOL SPECIAL: THE LEPRECHAUN IS FINALLY GONE! Text copyright © 2022 by Dan Gutman. Illustrations copyright © 2022 by Jim Paillot. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021936554
Digital Edition JANUARY 2022 ISBN: 978-0-06-306729-5
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-306727-1 (pbk bdg) — ISBN 978-0-06-306728-8 (trade bdg)
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* Ha-ha! Made you look down!
* I can’t believe you looked down again. The story is up there, dumbhead!
* What’s Irish and sits on the porch? Patty O’Furniture!
* Do you know why the capital of Ireland is so big? It’s been Dublin for years! Get it . . . doublin’?
* Or so they say.
* In case you were wondering, they eat a lot of potatoes in Ireland.
* Don’t you ever learn?
* You can read all about it in My Weird School #10: Mr. Docker Is Off His Rocker!
* We weren’t in tents! What did tents have to do with anything? We weren’t camping.
Dan Gutman, The Leprechaun Is Finally Gone!
